#373: Changing Directories
Published Tue, Mar 5, 2024,
recorded Tue, Mar 5, 2024
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Michael #1: zoxide
- zoxide is a smarter cd command, inspired by z and autojump.
- It remembers which directories you use most frequently, so you can "jump" to them in just a few keystrokes.
- zoxide works on all major shells and platforms.
Brian #2: Smart CLIs with Typer
- Rahul Pai
- Lots of TILs here, even though I’ve been using Typer for years.
- Examples of
- Auto-detection of arguments and types based on type hints
- Help text is a smidge clunkier
- Prompting for missing arguments
- Defaulting to an enviromental variable for missing args
- Print help if no args given
- Explicit app and subcommands with a comparison to argparse
- Reusable commands with result_callback
- Several topics covered in comparison with argparse
- See also Testing argparse Applications
Michael #3: Python recommended officially by the US Government
- The US government explicitly recommends memory safe languages.
- Python is one of them
- The comparison to big tech by Samuel is interesting
Brian #4: Textual tutorials at Mouse vs Python
- Mike Driscoll
- Most recently Creating a Modal Dialog For Your TUIs in Textual
- Textualize already has some pretty great documentation at textual.textualize.io
- But it’s cool to see some different tutorials on it.
Extras
Brian:
- Is UV the FUTURE of Python PACKAGING? 🐍📦 - Hynek
- Nice context on how uv fits into all of the existing packaging challenges and some hope for the future.
- venmo feed is public by default
Michael:
- ngrok Python SDK
- Djangonauts on Talk Python
- Maybe just a new case and battery for your phone?
Joke: Ship it!