Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Eric Matthes @ehmatthes@fosstodon.org

5/1/2025, 7:45:45 PM

Public

Someone asked about a deployment that failed using django-simple-deploy. The root cause was that their requirements.txt file had a UTF-16 encoding.

I'm currently parsing requirements.txt (when present) with path.read_text(), with no args. I could catch the UnicodeDecodeException, but is that worth supporting?

Is a UTF-16 encoded requirements file just going to cause problems for them down the road? I've never run into this before, and have no idea how common it is.

#Python #Django

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