#332: A Python, a Slurpee, and Some Chaos

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Brian #1: huak - A Python package manager written in Rust. Inspired by Cargo

• Suggested by Owen
• Tons of workflows
  • activate - activate a virtual environment
  • add add a dependency to a project
    • pip install it into your virtual environment, and add it to the dependency list in pyproject.toml
  • test - run pytest
  • update update dependencies
  • lint - run ruff, installing it first if necessary
  • fix - autofix fixable lint conflicts
  • build - build wheel in isolated virtual environment using hatchling
• Honestly
  • I was considering building my own workflow tool, but this is darned close to what I want.
  • Even though it’s still “in an experimental state”.
  • There are rough edges (ruff edges, get it), but still, way cool.
  • I just don’t know how to pronounce it. Is it like “walk”, or more like “whack”?

Michael #2: PSF expresses concerns about a proposed EU law that may make it impossible to continue providing Python and PyPI to the European public

• After reviewing the proposed Cyber Resilience Act and Product Liability Act, the PSF has found issues that put the mission of our organization and the health of the open-source software community at risk.
• As currently written, the authors of open-source components might bear legal and financial responsibility for the way their components are applied in someone else’s commercial product.
• The risk of huge potential costs would make it impossible in practice for us to continue to provide Python and PyPI to the European public.

Brian #3: ChaosToolkit

• Suggested by the maintainer, Sylvain Hellegouarch
• Declare and store your Chaos Engineering experiments as JSON/YAML files so you can collaborate and orchestrate them as any other piece of code.
• Extensible through an Open API
• Can be automated in CI/CD pipeline

Michael #4: PEP 711 – PyBI: a standard format for distributing Python Binaries

• “Like wheels, but instead of a pre-built python package, it’s a pre-built python interpreter”

Joke: It’s the effort that counts