#ITWorldCup Greetings, programs ๐พ
I've got the honor to present you the match you all have been waiting for: The final of the 2025* Programming Languages World Cup:
#python vs. #rustlang
*yes, yes I know, but we started in 2025. Will start the next one earlier, so it doesn't get confusing again.
IDK what I was doing wrong... but turns out using https://click.palletsprojects.com in my project made the #python debugger in #pycharm take 30-60 seconds, but wo/ and it's instant... FML. 
@davidismDavid Lord 
@pycharmPyCharm Blog
https://click.palletsprojects.com
Two nice things to add to your #Python testing toolkit.
https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202601/testing_exceptions_and_caches
@amoatengJohanan Oppong Amoateng has put together an initial roadmap to get Unicorn to a stable 1.0 release. ๐คฉ
We'd love your feedback! What would be most useful for Unicorn going forward? How can we set it up for improved support and adoption in the #Django ecosystem?
https://github.com/adamghill/django-unicorn/discussions/768#discussioncomment-15598088
#HTML #Reactive #WebDev #WebDevelopment #Web #AJAX #JavaScript #Python
RE: https://f.cz/@vitexsoftware/115956089961599516
Ono se dalo ฤekat ลพe to jednou vznikne. Neplรกnuju sice teฤ vลกechno co jsem napsal za poslednรญch 10 let pลepsat do pythonu, ale zas to dรกvรก svobodu nฤjakรฉ novรฉ projekty v #Python zaฤรญt
Je zde dobrรก sprรกva pro milovnรญky jazyka #Python kteลรญ majรญ v plรกnu mรญt co do ฤinฤnรญ s ekonomickรฝm systรฉmem #AbraFlexi.
Na vฤdomรญ se tรญmto dรกvรก ลพe u pลรญleลพitosti 60000 instalacรญ jejรญ starลกรญ PHP sestลiฤky vznikla za laskavรฉ podpory p. Radka Vymazala (co si vymazal svลฏj mastodon, takลพe zde na nฤj nemลฏลพu odkรกzat)
Zatรญm se jednรก o prototyp nicmรฉnฤ v plรกnu je jejรญ brzkรฉ zaฤlenฤnรญ do produktลฏ kterรฉ pracujรญ s flexibรญฤkem. Veลกkerรฉ kontribuce budou pลivรญtรกny ovacemi.
I'm making a pattern for a bouldering chalkbag in Inkscape, and I was laying out the pages so that they would tile for my printer by hand, and thought to myself "this is going to take *minutes*, I bet that in only a few dozen hours I can write a script to do this automatically". So I wrote my first Inkscape extension.
It overlaps pages with optional registration marks. The extension, and the chalkbag pattern are up on my codeberg.
https://codeberg.org/stib/stibs_inkscape_extensions
#IMadeAThing #Inkscape #Bouldering #Climbing #Sewing #Python
A coworker noticed that HTMX calls out Flask for defaulting to 302 redirects instead of 303 https://hypermedia.systems/htmx-patterns/#_a_response_code_gotcha. So I'm fixing that, which of course led down a rabbit hole of "why is the code like this" https://github.com/pallets/werkzeug/pull/3092 #Python #Flask
re: morshutalk-v2 dev thread
Today's goal is to figure out audio transcoding in Python so I can always have this thing output a smaller file for uploading elsewhere. I don't want to rely on subprocess because that makes things too OS-specific (I at least want to know this works on Windows and Linux) and I don't want to deal with any kind of external calls that I can't guarantee will stay the same between systems or (major) versions.
I at least want to be able to output to one other audio format - and if I can get away with feeding the encoder the bytearray (and thus not writing a wav file), even better. Target bitrate is going to be "good enough for speech" (so Low) and sample rate is going to also be "good enough for speech" (still low).
I did wonder if it'd be possible to use a different bit-depth, but after digging into things yesterday it looks like Python doesn't like that - unless I went from 16-bit to 32-bit, but that's way more than I need and thus a much larger file than warranted.
Anyways. Y'all will find out what ends up happening today.
re: morshutalk-v2 dev thread
Blessed be, someone has continued opuslib since it was deprecated forever ago, so I'll be working directly with opuslib_next for all of my opus output needs. Audio will at the very least be encoded both as the original wav file in addition to the OGG opus audio file. At least, assuming I can't find a higher-level option that's actively maintained.
Since I'll be working with opuslib more closelier (likely) it'll be More Annoying (TM) but a. it means I get to Learn python more gooder and 2. I'll get to figure that all out.
I think I'll abandon the idea of using anything but a 16-bit depth for the audio output - I can easily get away with a 22050 Hz sample-rate since we're talking voice lines, and Opus or whatever is going to compress things down a fair bit as well. We're also talking audio that's probably not much longer than 15 seconds barring the occasional jank, so an ever so slightly larger file because I can't be bothered to figure out narrower bit-depths is fine.
I'm still borrowing the original phoneme array since I don't want to sift through the original speech again to track down any possible improvements just yet. It honestly might be one of the few original bits that are exactly (or extremely) close to the original morshutalk, outside of the Morshu class.
I do want to tweak things to let him say numbers since g2p doesn't handle that eng -> eng-arpabet conversion at ALL (understandably so) so I need to figure out separating those if they're ever next to another character, and then convert the individual numerals into text (only covering 0 through 9, sorry he'll sound weird if you try to make him say 40 or whatever), which will then be handled properly by g2p.
No significant progress today other than finding opuslib_next, but that does give me a lead to dig into for encoding purposes. Whether I stick to using opuslib_next directly or use a higher-level system that's also cross-platform friendly IDK, but that'll come with time.
re: morshutalk-v2 dev thread
Thinking about it some more, I might try to just always encode the audio into either ogg-opus or AAC for size (and fediverse compatibility) reasons. Making sure the sample rate, bit-depth, and bitrate target are set correctly is going to be Annoying but worthwhile since the purpose of this is to hook up to a markov-chain system where you can intercept (?) the generated text to add the audio to the post as an attachment.
Which is prooobably going to mean gently modifying Mame-Brot to make morshutalk-v2 calls within itself to post thataway. Eh, later me problem. Only matters once I have this up and functional consistently.
edit: unrelated to this but oh thank fuck, that old g2p_en library that the OG morshutalk used is just a weird fork of the actual g2p maintained by NRC-ILT. The only change I'd need to do (other than probably re-doing the phonemes from Morshu's lines) would be to manually invoke the language I/O to be eng and eng-aprabet, respectively.
Well, that's one major library hurdle dealt with.
re: morshutalk-v2 dev thread
Today's goal is to figure out audio transcoding in Python so I can always have this thing output a smaller file for uploading elsewhere. I don't want to rely on subprocess because that makes things too OS-specific (I at least want to know this works on Windows and Linux) and I don't want to deal with any kind of external calls that I can't guarantee will stay the same between systems or (major) versions.
I at least want to be able to output to one other audio format - and if I can get away with feeding the encoder the bytearray (and thus not writing a wav file), even better. Target bitrate is going to be "good enough for speech" (so Low) and sample rate is going to also be "good enough for speech" (still low).
I did wonder if it'd be possible to use a different bit-depth, but after digging into things yesterday it looks like Python doesn't like that - unless I went from 16-bit to 32-bit, but that's way more than I need and thus a much larger file than warranted.
Anyways. Y'all will find out what ends up happening today.
<code>morshutalk-v2</code> dev thread I guess?
(Larger updates are prob going to be blog posts once things are off the ground and things are Allegedly Functional, but for now this'll do)
Today's "progress" (if I can even call it that) mostly just consists of getting the absolute basics down for how to structure things, refreshing myself on how to Python, and also pulling over the tiny bits of code that won't be changed from morshutalk-output (being the .wav file write). Still need to look into alternatives for a bunch of the packages, I want to try and use stuff that's up-to-date and doesn't rely on deprecated features like audioop.
I think I'm only going to have morshutalk-v2 support outputting the raw wav file, and/or convert it to opus (in an ogg container) or, failing that, aac. Whether I'll have it always do both or not IDK, it depends on whether I can skip writing the wav file and can pass the appropriate bytearray into the encoder.
On Linux that's fairly easy so long that opusenc is installed, since I can just use subprocess to do a system call within the python code. But I really want to try and avoid doing anything like that - if I can get a mostly-straightforward transcode into opus or aac or whatever I'd be much happier, I want to try and avoid any system-level dependencies if possible. Mostly as an exercise in portability, and also to avoid any weirdness that'd come with versioning outside of my control.
But "technically functional" is better than "not functional" at least. The actual morshu-v2 class and all that doesn't exist yet, since that all has to wait for me to identify what libs are viable replacements for what the OG version of morshutalk uses, and what I can wrap into native Python code (if possible and if not painful to do so).
It took a while to figure out how to do it, but there's now a search feature on https://peps.python.org/
I was impressed with the implementation of the static index approach that https://pagefind.app/ provides, thanks 
@bglwLiam Bigelow and your contributors for the hard work!
#OpenSource #Python ๐ โฅ๏ธ ๐ฆ #Rust #BetterTogether
Cua-Bench โ a benchmark for AI agents in GUI environments https://lobste.rs/s/i7zvfc #ai #python #vibecoding
https://github.com/trycua/cua-bench
New temp pinned post:
I am looking for a job!
Info on my professional website.
NB. The website is my contracting/freelance site, but in the Netherlands, I would have a regular employment job.
Jailbreaking LLM chatbots with a tool by 
@tomTom Casavant:
https://ambience.sk/jailbreaking-shopify-llm-chatbot/
#shopify #python #llm #ai #chatbots #webdev #hacking #jailbreak
In #Python, you could write sensible and transparent code, like this:
if (curNode):
curNode = curNode.next
But if you prefer something that is functionally identical, but harder to read, try this:
curNode and (curNode := curNode.next)
Follow me for more great tips on how to make life hell for the next person working with your code (which could be you).
The biggest PEP:
โฏ wc -w peps/pep-*.rst | sort --reverse | head -10
1854017 total
17128 peps/pep-0000.rst
14184 peps/pep-0817.rst
13436 peps/pep-3156.rst
13099 peps/pep-0773.rst
12978 peps/pep-0484.rst
12910 peps/pep-0622.rst
12606 peps/pep-0642.rst
12400 peps/pep-0810.rst
11994 peps/pep-0703.rst
(PEP 0 is the autogenerated index page)
Dew Drop Weekly Newsletter 467 - Week Ending January 23, 2026
#dewdrop #newsletter #javascript #css #aspnetcore #azure #windev #xaml #dotnet #csharp #ai #mcp #dotnetmaui #devops #agile #python #IoT #appdev #podcasts #data #sqlserver #m365 #powershell
python_uaf: Use-after-free in Python https://lobste.rs/s/jbkh3w #python #security
https://github.com/yo-yo-yo-jbo/python_uaf
The Wagtail 7.3 release candidate is here! Who wants to be the first one to kick the tires on AUTOSAVE?!!! ๐ Please come tell us if you find any bugs. ๐ ๐
Check out the full release notes here: https://docs.wagtail.org/en/latest/releases/7.3.html
Hello data fans!
Some newish API things on the PEPs website.
release-cycle.json is summary of Python x.y releases from 1.6: support status, release PEP, release manager, important dates.
python-releases.json also has info for each x.y.z version: release date and whether actual/planned.
release-schedule.ics is an iCal, especially useful if you're a release manager and want to plan [your life around] releases.
More details: https://peps.python.org/api/
#Python #PEP #release #data #API
My #programming new year's resolution is to stop adding, "...or False if not" to #python docstrings that say True is returned if something works.
I will probably be able to do this. Or I might not.
Packaging 26.0 is out! Hopefully in time for pip 26.0. :) https://github.com/pypa/packaging/releases/tag/26.0 #releases #python #packaging
๐จ New Episode Alert! ๐จ
Episode 7: The Definitely Not 3 Months Too Late DjangoCon US 2025 Recap ๐
Adam and Sangeeta finally get around to recapping #DjangoConUS 2025 in Chicago, then immediately derail into lightning talks, Labubus, and deeply questionable horror movie discussions ๐ป
Was this episode overdue? Yes ๐ฌ
Was it worth the wait? Also yes ๐
Now streaming on your favorite podcast app ๐ง
WebAssembly as a Python extension platform https://lobste.rs/s/nosush #python #wasm
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/01/01/
Oh #FFS! Trying to install #Offpunk and the #Python #Cryptography library requires #Rust now. So I install Rust and nothing works... Turns out the whole of the Rust ecosystem is dependent upon one server which is currently down and as such I can't do anything Rust related until they fix it, which means Python is also stuffed in the meantime! #IHateRust
๐ The DjangoCon US 2026 CFP is OPEN!
Weโre heading BACK to Chicago and looking for talks from all experience levels.
Got an idea about Django, Python, or the web? We want to hear it!
๐ Submit here: pretalx.com/djangocon-us...
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@itworldcup/115926604229775228
PHP is currently winning 51% to 49% against #Python with only 6 votes needed to swing it!
But it'll be a tough 10 hours so vote and boost!
I've finally launched my personal blog! ๐
To kick things off, my first post is the urllib3 2025 Annual Report. We discuss entering the "Billion-a-Month" club, our strengthened security posture, and the road to Python 3.14.
Check it out: https://volochii.dev/blog/urllib3-in-2025/
Please congratulate our newest PSF Fellow Members for Q4, 2025! Their continued contributions to the Python ecosystem are so very important to our community. #python
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2026/01/announcing-python-software-foundation.html
it feels hard to talk about how to write websites that feel manageable to maintain with like 0.5% of my brain because there are a thousand tiny and not always logical decisions like "use bash scripts to run my local dev server, because then it's `bash scripts/run.sh` no matter what programming language the project is in"
or "refuse to use any database other than SQLite because I had a bad experience operating Postgres once and I feel more comfortable with sqlite"
@b0rkJulia Evans sqlite is brilliant! I didn't understand why more people don't use it until I realized that with #flask, using the builtin sqlite in #python that it doesn't support threading and concurrency properly!
If you're so happy with Wagtail CMS you think it deserves a trophy, then please nominate Wagtail for the CMS Critic Awards! You could make a trophy if you want, but we think this is a smidge easier. ๐
Use this super-quick form to submit your nomination: https://cmscritic.com/nominate
@webologyJeff Triplett Just to pile on the uv accolades, it's so nice to be able to try these all without even thinking about how to install each one:
@ehmatthesEric Matthes @webologyJeff Triplett Same, but I've been using pipx for that purpose
#Python people, which type checker are you you using?
I just tried ty, and was really surprised at how much more output it generates than mypy. There's so much output, I think I prefer what mypy generates.
@ehmatthesEric Matthes Mypy, but will likely move to ty or pyrefly.
You can configure ty's output format to be more concise:
https://docs.astral.sh/ty/reference/cli/#ty-check--output-format
#Python
#Python people, which type checker are you you using?
I just tried ty, and was really surprised at how much more output it generates than mypy. There's so much output, I think I prefer what mypy generates.
Why I ๐งก the web.
Generate beautiful, minimalist map posters for any city in the world.
Black 26.1.0 is out.
For those who don't know, they use CalVer, and a new year means a new style with some formatting changes. So far they look good to me.
#introduction 2.0
I'm Jeroen from the Netherlands and a problem solver.
Interests:
#bsd #freebsd #unix
#buddhism #folklore #mythology
#cats
#commodore #c64 #amiga #retrocomputing #hardware
#DevOps
#DigiPres #metadata #SemanticWeb
#documentation #TechnicalWriting
#fantasy #SciFi #books
#history
#heraldry #vexillology
#japanese
#linguistics (#ProtoGermanic #ProtoIndoEuropean)
#programming #assembly #c #golang #nim #odinlang #python #rust #zig
#typography
How does one spelunk #Python history? I see that breakpoint() was added all the way back in 3.7, but hasn't been improved on at all.
I can't be the first person who wanted to do "breakpoint(x,y)" to start the debugger and immediately print out the values of x and y, instead of making me type each in the debugger every time I got to this spot.
Where can I find the discussion of what breakpoint() should and should not be able to do?
This Wednesday! #Boston #Python
https://www.meetup.com/bostonpython/events/312870157/
You can find four #books I wrote on my website:
https://www.draketo.de/#books
And you can get them in print!
โค๏ธ ๐ โค๏ธ
Three are about #programming:
- Naming & Logic with #Scheme:
https://www.epubli.com/shop/naming-and-logic-9783565028139
- Naming & Logic with #Wisp:
https://www.epubli.com/shop/naming-and-logic-programming-essentials-with-wisp-9783565093199
- From #Python to #Guile Scheme:
https://www.epubli.com/shop/going-from-python-to-guile-scheme-9783737568401
One is about #roleplaying:
- Ein Wรผrfel-System 2.6:
https://www.lulu.com/shop/arne-babenhauserheide/ein-w%C3%BCrfel-system-1w6-regeln-261/paperback/product-21368221.html
Released 0.9.0 of minestrone, a #Python library to parse messy HTML with ease.
Same delightful API as before, but now uses https://github.com/rushter/selectolax to drastically improve the speed of parsing HTML.
๐ https://minestrone.adamghill.com/
๐ ๏ธ https://github.com/adamghill/minestrone
๐ฆ https://pypi.org/project/minestrone/
There's #Python PyConDE/PyConIT community voting going on this weekend.
If you've visited one of those conferences in the last years, you can vote (even if you can't come this time). By voting you can influcence which talks will be available for you to watch online later in the year - and you get a good overview on what's hot this year.
๐ฉ๐ช https://2026.pycon.de/blog/community-voting/
๐ฎ๐น https://2026.pycon.it/en/voting-info
