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Are you in Boston and want to hang with #Python people? Boston Python's project & collaboration night is June 24th. It's an informal gathering to talk together, work together, learn from each other, network, whatever. Tell your friends :) www.meetup.com/bostonpython...

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Two geometric facts about 63, but how to connect them? nedbatchelder.com/blog/202506/...

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Cog 3.5! --check now has --diff to see what changed shorter checksum format to be less distracting current directory restoration to simplify your code and, shocker! --help works! cog.readthedocs.io

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39 years ago today.... nedbatchelder.com/blog/202506/...

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Every June I dig this up: hachyderm.io/@nedbat/1105...

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a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

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Good news: the site is back, though I still have questions about what happened...

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Well, I used to have a web site! Digital Ocean "upgraded" my server three days ago, and nedbatchelder.com hasn't worked since. They say they are working on it...

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Hmm, in CI, the "tests" action works, but the "coverage" action fails, and nothing has changed. Debugging it, I'm going to learn something. >> I learn something new every day, no matter how hard I try.

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Intriguing: css-doodle.com

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There's an odd resonance when your project's issue numbers start being years that you've lived through: github.com/nedbat/cover...

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As a tool author, it's hard to keep up with all the changes to keep my code up-to-date. Sometimes a polite reminder is all it takes: github.com/nedbat/cover... Also, Claude made the code changes, and did a good job!

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How desperate is my current "machete mode" debugging? I put "except: pass" on one line instead of two! nedbatchelder.com/text/machete...

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Want more play at #PyConUS? Join us at the juggling open-space at 3:45 Saturday outside the 3rd floor rooms. It's not sky-diving, but it's still great! We'll teach you!

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My suggestion related to this morning's #PyConUS diversity panel: A simple way to help with inclusion is to sit at lunch with someone who doesn't seem like you, and introduce yourself. It's easy, it's free, and those small connections grow and welcome people in.

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Headed to #PyConUS, thinking about how to approach the excitement. nedbatchelder.com/blog/202505/...

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The TIOBE index is crude, but it's exciting to see #Python continuing to shine: www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ Too bad about the simplistic and misleading summary: "[Python] is interpreted and thus prone to unexpected run-time errors."

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Anyone going to #PyConUS and can bring some juggling props? I'll bring some, not sure about clubs.

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You can tell TOML is a backronym because the O definitely doesn't stand for Obvious: toml.io/en/v1.0.0#ar...

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In which our hero fine-tunes when GitHub actions are run, and battles mysterious YAML and GitHub oddities along the way: nedbatchelder.com/blog/202505/...

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A downside of uv (or any other tool) doing so many different things: it's hard to search for "getting started with uv" because you find people using it for a different task than you wanted it for.

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Another kind of bug revealed by including tests in your coverage: with pytest.raises(ValueError): process_data("bad data 1") process_data("bad data 2") # never executed! nedbatchelder.com/blog/202008/...

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If an error in your #Python program seems impossible, double-check that you haven't edited the source after starting the program. Tracebacks re-read the source files to show the lines of code, so they can show you edited lines that aren't what you are running.

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Sad to see an AI suggest these entries for a [tool.coverage.run] section: omit = tests/, /init.py, /main.py, /cli.py, /setup.py, /pycache/, /test_*.py nedbatchelder.com/blog/202008/...

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Q: What's the plural of regex? A: regex{2,}

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I'm proud of Boston! Resistance with flair: silencedogoodboston.com

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Some little-used #Python regular expression features that aren't confusing punctuation! nedbatchelder.com/blog/202504/...

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Among the many oddities in YAML is the variety of string formatting options. Here's a site that explains them: yaml-multiline.info

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A parenting story from 30 years ago. Connecting with a six-year-old doesn't go as planned. nedbatchelder.com/blog/202504/...

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Want a concise daily digest of issue and pull request activity from your GitHub repos? Try Dinghy: pypi.org/project/ding...

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Sorting strings in #Python the way people expect: nedbatchelder.com/blog/202503/...

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My watchgha lets you watch the progress of GitHub Actions in your terminal. Now the job names are sorted, since GitHub now returns them in a randomish order. github.com/nedbat/watch...

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Want an easier way to maintain a changelog? Scriv makes it easier, and 1.6.0 has just been released: pypi.org/project/scriv/

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Coverage․py 7.7.1, with some minor (I hope!) tweaks to the sys.monitoring support for #Python 3.14. Please install 3.14.0a6 and try out branch coverage! It will be faster, you won't believe it. pypi.org/project/cove...

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In the mail. Let’s do this, Wisconsin. Susan Crawford . @crawfordforwi.bsky.social

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Wisconsin, today is the first day of early in-person voting! Visit myvote.wi.gov to make a plan to vote.

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If your test suite can run on #Python 3.14, and you use branch coverage measurement, please get Python 3.14.0a6 and coverage․py 7.7.0 and let me know how the speed compares to older versions! It will be faster!

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