Paul Ganssle @pganssle@social.cleverlibre.org

@toast Yeah, well that's another way that Python 2 has been increasingly already dead. The latest releases of matplotlib, ipython, Django and pandas haven't supported Python 2 for a long while.

Python's killer feature for me is the third party ecosystem. Even if core python delayed Python 2's death officially, are you really better off with frozen versions of all your dependencies?

@toast Personally I think the "end of life" date was a pretty arbitrary epoch anyway. Management types like firm dates and deadlines so they were given one.

In reality, Python 2 has been increasingly unsupported over the course of a few years. Some distros will probably make half-hearted efforts to patch it for a few years hence.

@toast I suspect we'll do things like close all the open Python 2-only bugs as wontfix as part of the wind-down. After January 2020 release manager has to approve anything that goes into the release. I can't speak for him, but I think the assumption is that we'll only be merging bugs introduced since the last release.

@toast @nik It's not actually bumped, Python 2 is just such a low priority that it's not worth making the release manager work over the holidays to prepare the final release.

Blog post: Testing an Arch Linux package in Gitlab CI

This is basically the blog post I was hoping to find when I was struggling with permissions issues in my new CI pipeline. It's a bit outside my comfort zone, so I'm especially keen on feedback (e-mail is best, but twitter or mastodon works in a pinch).

https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2019/12/gitlab-ci-arch-pkg.html

#archlinux #linux #gitlab #docker #testing

@bitecode Looks like the quine goes in alphabetical order, too. Wow.

#PyO3 is considering dropping support for Python 3.5, but is looking for feedback from users. See the issue here: https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3/issues/685

#Rust @rustlang #Python

I see no mention of translations in the Wikipedia article for the episode: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Hat

A central part of the "Free Hat" episode of South Park is the confusion between "free as in beer" and "free as in freedom". I'm curious, did anyone watch this episode in a language that makes a clear distinction between these? How was it translated? Did they add a gloss?

"Alexa, who lives in Buckingham Palace?"
"Buckingham Palace's resident is Prince Philip."

Just submitted another one and it's #923. 😬

Oh boy, my #PyCon proposal is number 734. Gonna be some stiff competition this year.

I was reminded of this when replying to someone else and I thought I'd post it separately, here's a 2015 blog post from @bderickson that I found very useful about how to generate LaTeX using Jinja2: http://eosrei.net/articles/2015/11/latex-templates-python-and-jinja2-generate-pdfs

@arkedos A fun little challenge there is that Jinja uses some of the same characters as LaTeX in its syntax, so I had to modify the grammar of Jinja's templates (it's easier than it sounds). There's a blog post on how to do it here: http://eosrei.net/articles/2015/11/latex-templates-python-and-jinja2-generate-pdfs

@arkedos I also love my TeX resume. I wrote a thing that takes resume content in as YAML and generates a TeX resume from it: https://github.com/pganssle/resume-tex

It probably took me more time to write than it will save me over a lifetime of manual resume edits, but it was still fun.

I'm really glad people were tweeting about getting their #PyCon proposals in, because I really let the deadline sneak up on me this year.

@pganssle One thing that concerns me is that there is no incentive for news outlets or researchers/universities to be careful in their reporting of science.

If it were up to me, nothing would be reported in the popular press without pre-registration and replication.