Python Bytes Crossover 2023

Episode #443, published Fri, Dec 29, 2023, recorded Tue, Dec 19, 2023

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Special crossover episode of Python Bytes to wrap up 2023. Topics include:

Michael #1

Hatch v1.8

Brian #2:

svcs : A Flexible Service Locator for Python

Michael #3:

Steering Council 2024 Term Election Results

Brian #4:

Extras

Joke:

The dream is dead?

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Michael #1: Hatch v1.8

Brian #2: svcs : A Flexible Service Locator for Python

Hynek
A library to help structure and test Python web applications.
“svcs (pronounced services) is a dependency container* for Python. It gives you a central place to register factories for types/interfaces and then imperatively acquire instances of those types with automatic cleanup* and **health checks.”
“Benefits:
- Eliminates tons of repetitive boilerplate code,
- unifies acquisition* and cleanups of services,
- simplifies testing through loose coupling,
- improves live introspection and monitoring* with **health checks.”
Hynek has started a YouTube channel, and is starting with an explanation of svcs.
Yes, Hynek, we want more videos. I like that it’s not a beginner level.
My request for future videos: just past beginner, and also intermediate level.
There are plenty of basics videos out there, not as many filling the gaps between beginner and production.

Michael #3: Steering Council 2024 Term Election Results

The 2024 Term Python Steering Council is:
- Pablo Galindo Salgado
- Gregory P. Smith
- Emily Morehouse
- Barry Warsaw
- Thomas Wouters
Full results are available in PEP 8105 .
How do you become a candidate?
- Candidates must be nominated by a core team member. If the candidate is a core team member, they may nominate themselves.

Brian #4: Python protocols. When to use them in your projects to abstract and decoupling

Carlos Vecina
“Protocols are an alternative (or a complement) to inheritance, abstract classes and Mixins.”
Understanding interactions between ABC, MixIns and Protocols in Python
With examples

Extras

Brian:

Donations. It’s a decent time of the year to donate to projects that help you
- Python Software Foundation
- Django Software Foundation
- Python Bytes
- Also, look for “Sponsor this project” links in GitHub for projects you depend on.

Michael:

Mastodon guidelines (mine):
- If you have a picture and description, I’ll probably follow you back
- If you have posts that seem relevant +1
- If you have a verified webpage +1
- If your account is private, won’t. I don’t understand really since private group messages already exist and the profile itself is public.
Speaking of Mastodon. I had a productive conversation with the PSF and others around masks and conferences.
Dropbox spooks users by sending data to OpenAI for AI search features
- There was a comment in the above article to the effect of “Once you give your data to a third party (even trusted like Dropbox), you no longer control that data.” That sent me searching and thinking…
- sync.com? proton drive (discount code)? nextcloud? filen.io? icedrive.net?
- ownCloud’s recent CVE makes me a bit nervous of self-hosted options.
- Either way, Cryptomator is very interesting.
Beyond privacy, this got me thinking, just how many hours of dev time have been diverted to add mediocre-at-best AI features to everything?
I’m doing a big digital decluttering and have lots to say on that soon.
Not submitting my talks to PyCascades this year.
But I did submit 3 talks to PyCon US. 🤞
I will be giving the keynote at PyCon Philippines.

Joke: The dream is dead?

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