Just released! 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

Pillow 12.0.0
https://fosstodon.org/@pillow/115379893139846791

norwegianblue 0.23.0
https://github.com/hugovk/norwegianblue/releases/tag/0.23.0

pypinfo 23.0.0
https://github.com/ofek/pypinfo/blob/master/CHANGELOG.rst#2300

Humanize 4.14.0
https://github.com/python-humanize/humanize/releases/tag/4.14.0

Tablib 3.9.0
https://github.com/jazzband/tablib/releases/tag/v3.9.0

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Congrats to the newest PSF’s Community Service Award recipients!

@glasnt, @sarahkuchinsky, and @mathsppblog have each made lasting contributions to the #Python community 🐍🗺️ From conferences to tutorials to education worldwide, their service to the Python community deserves recognition and celebration!
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Hey, any Python experts want to help a Python newbie out? I've been hacking for decades, but I can't say I know Python best practices.

I'm working on https://github.com/Ovid/sqlitch-v2 (porting some Perl code to Python) and while it seems good to me (but very much alpha and a WIP), I don't know what I don't know. If there's anything obvious I've missed or is unpythonic, I would love to know.

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For comparison, this is the #Python implementation. (And yes, it's 23 "lines" in the file, but if you subtract the boilerplate it's indeed exactly 10 lines of code.)

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Screenshot of 23 lines of Python. Code follows: from collections.abc import Iterable from dataclasses import dataclass from pathlib import Path @dataclass class SourceFile: path: Path def find_source_files(dir: Path) -> Iterable[SourceFile]: for root, dirs, files in dir.walk(): for name in files: yield SourceFile(root / name) def main() -> None: for file in find_source_files(Path("doc")): print(file.path) if __name__ == "__main__": main()

I have to say I like the #typing system of #Python. The great thing about it, is the optional use. I use it where I see a lot of value (to do things wrong otherwise) and ignore it where things are just very obvious (in my eyes ;)).

It is not ideal either, I agree, but somehow it feels quite pythonic.

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Let me know if I've missed anyone!

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Nice benchmark comparison of various #Python versions from @miguelgrinberg

Key takeaway: if you want to do a bubble sort, use Pypy or Rust.

Ok no. 3.14 is the fastest CPython. The JIT is still a work in progress. Free-threaded interpreter is quite nice for multithreading, but not regular stuff yet. Pypy is faster than any CPython. By a lot. But if speed's all you care about, maybe Rust.

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Only one week left until the release of Python 3.14.0 final!

https://docs.python.org/3.14/whatsnew/3.14.html

https://peps.python.org/pep-0745/

What are you looking forward to?

#Python #Python314

Three days until release and a bug in the Linux kernel has turned a dozen buildbots red...

It's already been fixed in the kernel, but will take some time to bubble up. We'll skip that test for relevant kernel versions in the meantime.

https://buildbot.python.org/#/release_status
#Python #Python314

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Python Release Status Dashboard 3.15-3.13 are red and "✘ Unreleasable: Tier-1 build failed"

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3.14 Tier-1 build failed (5) Tier-2 build failed (2) Tier-3 build failed (6) Disconnected Tier-1 builder (with recent build) (1) Disconnected Tier-2 builder (1) Disconnected Tier-3 builder (1) Disconnected Tierless builder (1) Warnings from Tier-1 build (1) Warnings from Tier-2 build (3) Warnings from Tier-3 build (2) Unstable build failed (18) Warnings from unstable build (4) Disconnected unstable builder (30) No problem detected (72)

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ERROR: test_aead_aes_gcm (test.test_socket.LinuxKernelCryptoAPI.test_aead_aes_gcm) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/buildbot/buildarea/3.14.cstratak-fedora-stable-x86_64/build/Lib/test/test_socket.py", line 7071, in test_aead_aes_gcm op.sendall(plain) ~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^ OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument

And back to green!
#Python #Python314

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Python Release Status Dashboard 3.15 is red: ✘ Unreleasable Tier-1 build failed 3.14 is green: ✔ Releasable Disconnected Tier-2 builder 3.13 is orange: ⚠ Concern Tierless build failed

Release day!

First off, check blockers and buildbots.

A new release-blocker appeared yesterday (because of course) but it can wait until 3.14.1.

https://github.com/python/cpython/labels/release-blocker

Three deferred-blockers are also waiting until 3.14.1.

https://github.com/python/cpython/labels/deferred-blocker

A new tier-2 buildbot failure appeared yesterday (because of course) but it had previously been offline for a month and will need some reconfiguration. Can ignore.

https://buildbot.python.org/#/release_status

OK, let's make a Python!

#Python #Python314 #release

Next up, merge and backport the final change to What's New in Python 3.14 to declare it latest stable.
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/139631

Now start run_release.py, the main release automation script, which does a bunch of pre-checks, runs blurb to create a merged changelog, bumps some numbers, and pushes a branch and tag to my fork. It'll go upstream at the end of a successful build.

Then kick off the CI to build source zips, docs and Android binaries.
https://github.com/python/release-tools/actions/runs/18308460797

#Python #Python314 #release

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A GitHub Actions build matrix showing an initial verify-input followed by parallel build-source (itself followed by test-source), build-docs, and build-android (consisting of aarch64 and x86_64 jobs).

(That's actually the second CI attempt, we had to update some script arguments following an Android test runner update.)

This build takes about half an hour.

I've also informed the Windows and macOS release managers about the tag and they will start up installer builds.

This takes a few hours, so I've got time to finish up the release notes.

PEP 101 is the full process, but much is automated and we don't need to follow it all manually.

https://peps.python.org/pep-0101/

#Python #Python314 #release

The Windows build has been started.

The jobs with profile-guided optimisation (PGO) build once, then collect a profile by running the tests, and then build again using that profile, to see how "real" code executes and optimises for that.

https://dev.azure.com/Python/cpython/_build/results?buildId=164907&view=results

Meanwhile, the docs+source+Android build has finished and the artifacts have been copied to where they need to go with SBOMs created.

#Python #Python314 #release

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The Windows build on Azure Pipelines. Lots of boxes for each of "build binaries", "sign binaries", "generate layouts", "pack", "test" and finally "publish". So far nearing the end of the build binaries stage.

The Windows build is ready and macOS is underway.

#Python #Python314 #release

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Terminal prompt showing the output of run_release.py with lots of checked tasks and ending with: Waiting for files: Linux ✅ Windows ✅ Mac ❌

macOS installer done, next on the final publishing and announcing steps.

#Python #Python314 #release

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Terminal showing: ✅ Wait until all files are ready Go to https://www.python.org/admin/downloads/release/add/ and create a new release Have you already created a new release for 3.14.0? Enter yes or no:

🚀 It's out!

🥧 Please install and enjoy Python 3.14!

https://discuss.python.org/t/python-3-14-0-final-is-here/104210?u=hugovk

#Python #Python314 #release

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Two snakes enjoying a pie with 3.14 on the top and π crimping.

@chrisjrn.fyi Interesting proposal they're making there.

I've been tinkering with the AI-assisted autocompletion in #PyCharm recently - only on open source projects so no concerns about code privacy - and it's been slightly helpful but overall a very mixed bag. It'll be interesting to see if it gets better as they collect more data.

#Python

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Published a pre-PEP for defining the Python Security Response Team (PSRT) membership and operations, if you're a part of the #Python core team and are interested in vulnerability triage please take a look and weigh in:

https://discuss.python.org/t/pre-pep-python-security-response-team-membership-and-operations/104199

@wildrikku To be fair, the URL handling is a particularly poorly structured portion of the #Python standard library. (Partly because the documentation for `HTTPResponse` lives at a very non-obvious place, https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.client.html#httpresponse-objects)

Most people just use external libraries like `requests` or `httpx`, which are much easier to use than the standard library's `urllib`; I would recommend that.

@wildrikku @mark Wait there's *another* requests library? 😵‍💫 I'm talking about this one: https://pypi.org/project/requests/

I'd add that I think one of the emerging strengths of Python is how easy it makes it to use dependencies, especially with inline script metadata (https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/inline-script-metadata/). So the reasons to avoid dependencies are getting less and less relevant, and people who dogmatically insist on avoiding dependencies without a good reason - not saying that's you, but those people are out there - appear increasingly out of touch with modern best practices.

That being said, I still think it'd be a big improvement if the Python stdlib included better-designed URL handling modules, but realistically, I don't think that's going to happen. It's just that, because of the rich third-party library ecosystem, that's not as big of a problem as it would otherwise be.

#Python

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