#113: Python Lands on the Windows 10 App Store

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Brian #1: Advent of Code 2018 Solutions

• Michael Fogleman
• Even if you didn’t have time or energy to do the 2018 AoC, you can learn from other peoples solutions. Here’s one set written up in a nice blog post.

Michael #2: Python Lands on the Windows 10 App Store

• Python Software Foundation recently released Python 3.7 as an app on the official Windows 10 app store.
• Python 3.7 is now available to install from the Microsoft Store, meaning you no longer need to manually download and install the app from the official Python website.
• there is one limitation. “Because of restrictions on Microsoft Store apps, Python scripts may not have full write access to shared locations such as TEMP and the registry.
• Discussed with Steve Dower over on Talk Python 191

Brian #3: How I Built A Python Web Framework And Became An Open Source Maintainer

• Florimond Manca
• Bocadillo - “A modern Python web framework filled with asynchronous salsa”
• ”maintaining an open source project is a marathon, not a sprint.”
• Tips at the end of the article include tips for the following topics, including recommendations and tool choices:
  • Project definition
  • Marketing & Communication
  • Community
  • Project management
  • Code quality
  • Documentation
  • Versioning and releasing

Michael #4: Python maintainability score via Wily

• via Anthony Shaw
• A Python application for tracking, reporting on timing and complexity in tests
• Easiest way to calculate it is with wily https://github.com/tonybaloney/wily … the metrics are ‘maintainability.mi’ and ‘maintainability.rank’ for a numeric and the A-F scale.
  • Build an index: wily build src
  • Inspect report: wily report file
  • Graph: wily graph file metric

Brian #5: A couple fun awesome lists

• Awesome Python Security resources
  • Tools
    • web framework hardening, ex: secure.py
    • multi tools
    • static code analysis, ex: bandit
    • vulnerabilities and security advisories
    • cryptography
    • app templates
  • Education
    • lots of resources for learning
  • Companies
• Awesome Flake8 Extensions
  • clean code
  • testing, including
    • flake8-pytest - Enforces to use pytest-style assertions
    • flake8-mock - Provides checking mock non-existent methods
  • security
  • documentation
  • enhancements
  • copyrights

Michael #6: fastlogging

• via Robert Young
• A faster replacement of the standard logging module with a mostly compatible API.
• For a single log file it is ~5x faster and for rotating log file ~13x faster.
• It comes with the following features:
  • (colored, if colorama is installed) logging to console
  • logging to file (maximum file size with rotating/history feature can be configured)
  • old log files can be compressed (the compression algorithm can be configured)
  • count same successive messages within a 30s time frame and log only once the message with the counted value.
  • log domains
  • log to different files
  • writing to log files is done in (per file) background threads, if configured
  • configure callback function for custom detection of same successive log messages
  • configure callback function for custom message formatter
  • configure callback function for custom log writer

Extras:

• Michael: My webcast on async, Jan 24, 11am PT
• Michael: Watch your YAML!

Joke: >>> import antigravity