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I keep finding myself tailing each line with a semicolon.

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The popular #Python library “Requests” needs your help! @nateprewitt plans to add type hints to the API and is requesting feedback:

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Wow, #PHP you make it interesting to use traits and "extend" them ... I would never have guessed that.

class Something {
use ExportTrait {
createA as traitCreateA;
createB as traitCreateB;
}
public function createA() {
return $this->traitCreateA();
}
}

And in #python it happens that you can even guess how it might be done without knowing the syntax. Less often, but it happened to me.

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I'm a software developer and sysadmin who could really use being #fedihired.

What I'd really like to do is Rust, but once you ignore the dubious crypto and AI stuff, there seems to be nothing out there. Prove me wrong with a counterexample!

I've spent decades fixing Enterprise mudballs mostly written in #Perl. If you've got a crufty legacy system that everybody else is too scared to touch, I'm your man. I love fixing stuff like that.

I've also done commerical #Scala, #Python, #C/#C++, and although I don't usually admit it on my CV but these are now Trying Times when everything is on the table, even #PHP (the longest six months of my life).

Perl naturally leads into Unix system administration and infrastructure. I've built and maintained mail clusters, VoIP systems, network monitoring, DNS management platforms, that sort of thing. If it's non-sexy but something which needs to be done, I'm there.

Available immediately, for contract or permie, onsite in Amsterdam/Randstad or remote to anywhere.

This is your periodic reminder that `0xfor....real` is a syntactically-valid AND error-free #Python program

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Dew Drop Weekly Newsletter 474 - Week Ending March 13, 2026

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ICYMI, there is a new blog for #Python ! 🥳

https://blog.python.org

Give it a follow in your #RSS reader of choice, I am hoping to see more exciting Python content beyond just release notes published there.

Cool, cool. #Python wants to be hip and have types too, but so then what does this print?

for x in b"hello":
print(type(x))

There is a silver lining to the whole #python #chardet debacle. If it is legal to throw a pile of code at an LLM, and tell it to write a new version of that code that is not a derivative then that gives us a lot of options too.

GPL compatible #ZFS? no problem! #ReactOS from the leaked NT/2k sources? No problem!

Maybe this is a golden age for the collapse of proprietary software after all. If they can do an end run around the #GPL we can do an end run around the #EULA.

#opensource