#258 Python built us an anime dog!

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Brian #1: stale : github bot to “Close Stale Issues and PRs”

• Was one response to a question by Will McGugan
• Something like “An issue filed on an open source project, I’ve asked a followup question about the issue, and filer doesn’t respond. Is there an easy way to close the issue after a set time period of inactivity.”
  • Just trying to get a reference to Will out of the way early in the episode.
• stale does this:
  • Warns and then closes issues and PRs that have had no activity for a specified amount of time.
  • The configuration must be on the default branch and the default values will:
    • Add a label "Stale" on issues and pull requests after 60 days of inactivity and comment on them
    • Close the stale issues and pull requests after 7 days of inactivity
    • If an update/comment occur on stale issues or pull requests, the stale label will be removed and the timer will restart
• If defaults seem too short or harsh, everything is configurable

Michael #2: jut - JUpyter notebook Terminal viewer

• via kidpixo
• The command line tool view the IPython/Jupyter notebook in the terminal.
• Even works against remote ipynb files (via http)

Karen #3: JupyterLyte

• via Marcel Milcent @MarcelMilcent
• JupyterLite is a JupyterLab distribution that runs entirely in the browser and is interactive
• Built from using JupyterLab components and extensions
• Being developed by core Jupyter developers, but the project is still unofficial
• Example: https://jupyterlite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_static/lab/index.html
• Offers JupyterLab or RetroLab (a.k.a JupyterLab Classic) look
• No application server required, cacheable
• Try "import this"!

Brian #4: Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep

• ack now, supplies are limited!
• Tangent for those unfamiliar with grep
  • grep is an essential tool for many developers that prints lines that match a pattern
  • grep foo *.py - list all lines containing “foo” in this directory
  • grep -l foo **/*.py | grep -v venv
    • **``*/**``.py Recursively find all Python files this directory and all subdirectories
    • -l Print just the name of the file if it contains a “foo” in it.
    • | grep -v venv Exclude virtual environments, because there’s a lot of “foo” in there. (There’s gotta be a better way to do this, someone suggest a better way, please).
• Article compares ack, ag “The silver Searcher”, git-grep, grep, and rg “ripgrep”
  • Language, Licence, and regex versions
  • Features like parallelism, config, etc.
  • Fine grain feature comparisons
    • searching capability
    • regular expression style
    • search output
    • file presentation
    • file finding
    • inclusion, exclusion
    • file type specification
    • random other features
• This is on the ack website, and kinda makes my want to try ripgrep.

Michael #5: Python Client for Airtable: pyairtable

• by Gui Talarico
• What is Airtable? Hmm kind of like:
  • Excel
  • Trello boards
  • CI Pipelines
• A big player on nocode/lowcode community
• Check out the quickstart to see how it works.

Karen #6: Black can now format notebooks

• via Marco Gorelli gh: MarcoGorelli (creator of nbQA [isort, pyupgrade, mypy, pylint, flake8, and more on Jupyter Notebooks])
• pip install black[jupyter]
• black mynotebook.ipynb
• “…it should be significantly more robust than the current third-party tools”

Extras

Michael

• Trying a new password manager (sorta): Bitwarden
• The PSF is looking for an Executive Director
• Want a person in anime form?
• Python 3.11.0a2 is out (via PyCoders)

Karen

• Volunteer in your local Python community (or volunteer to speak)

Joke: