#Python people, I have a question about names. In the following example, what do you call the first line of this function (everything from `def` through the colon)?

Followup question: When someone refers to the "function definition" does that make you think of the entire function, or just part of it?

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def report_observation(bird: str) -> str: """Report a birding observation.""" return f"A {bird} was seen during the count period." msg = report print(msg)

I haven't posted much with the #programming or #Python hashtags lately. I need to do something about that.

> Zero-Dependency Python: Building Tools That Avoid External Libraries. https://medium.com/@CodeWithHannan/zero-dependency-python-building-tools-that-avoid-external-libraries-f2a8f5092b57

Is there a best practice around setting up a modern Python module repo with pyproject.toml, uv, linting, tox, pytest, coverage, GitHub actions ...? There are so many different approaches, I'm struggling to bring it all together. #Python #GitHub #astral_uv #tox

Based on the latest tests I've published [1], Django LiveView [2] appears to be the fastest dynamic frontend (I'm sure more variables can be measured). OK...

How can I test its limits? By drawing a Snake? A Pac-Man?... No... let's crank up the difficulty to Nightmare! Let's run DOOM inside Django 😈

Django starts ViZDoom and sends one <div> per pixel with its color. The game runs at 100x100 pixels at 60 FPS = 600.000 divs/second! 😵‍💫

Furthermore, since the data is sent via broadcast, all players can see the same thing in real time.

Crazy

[1] https://github.com/tanrax/django-interactive-frameworks-benchmark
[2] https://django-liveview.andros.dev/

#django #python #doom

But note that tools installed using uvx do not have access to the dependencies of your project. They are run in a separate environment with only their own dependencies installed. So for things that need to import the project's dependencies, such as pytest or mypy, you will need to use "uv run ..." instead of uvx.

#python #uv

There was a time when I wrote Scala function names in Telugu, because it allowed full Unicode support.

Felienne Hermans, a professor from Netherlands implemented a subset of #Python in various natural languages for teaching programming to 12 year-old children. It's called Hedy.

https://corecursive.com/hedy-with-felienne-hermans/

I think it's a great step in the direction of decolonializing computer programming.

Does computer programming have colonial values baked in? It's not something we give much though to. 🤔

#Hedy

• uv for package management
• pytest
• ruff for linting and formatting

Using Python uv tool as a replacement for Poetry for a small Python utility I'm writing. It feels a lot like Rust's Cargo.

All that I can say for now is that it is certainly a better experience than setting up a virtualenv manually.

I am writing this proprietary tool for a team of JavaScript developers. I think they will feel that it is just as easy to use as npm/yarn or whatever is the new hotness this week.

#Python #RustLang