#37 Rule over the shells with Sultan
Python Bytes - Podcast tekijän mukaan Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken - Maanantaisin
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Brian #1: New URL for Python Developer’s Guide
- How to contribute to CPython
Some really useful links that I hadn’t noticed before. Also great ideas to include in a contributing guide for any large open source project:
- Core developers and contributors alike will find the following guides useful:
- How to Contribute to Open Source (from https://opensource.guide)
- Building Welcoming Communities (from https://opensource.guide)
- Guide for contributing to Python:
- Getting Started
- Where to Get Help
- Lifecycle of a Pull Request
- Running & Writing Tests
- Beginner tasks to become familiar with the development process
- Helping with Documentation
- Increase Test Coverage
- Advanced tasks for once you are comfortable
- Silence Warnings From the Test Suite
- Fixing issues found by the buildbots
- Fixing “easy” Issues (and Beyond)
- Using the Issue Tracker and Helping Triage Issues
- Triaging an Issue
- Experts Index
- Following Python’s Development
- How to Become a Core Developer
- Committing and Pushing Changes
- Development Cycle
- Continuous Integration
- Git Bootcamp and Cheat Sheet
Michael #2: Sultan: Command and Rule Over Your Shell
- Python package for interfacing with command-line utilities, like yum, apt-get, or ls, in a Pythonic manner
Simple example
from sultan.api import Sultan
s = Sultan()
s.sudo("yum install -y tree").run()
Better in a context manager:
from sultan.api import Sultan
with Sultan.load(sudo=True) as s:
s.yum("install -y tree").run()
Even works remotely:
from sultan.api import Sultan
with Sultan.load(sudo=True, hostname="myserver.com") as sultan:
sultan.yum("install -y tree").run()
Brian #3: Flake8Lint
- Sublime Text plugin for lint Python files.
- Includes these linters and style checkers:
- Flake8 (used in "Python Flake8 Lint") is a wrapper around these tools:
- pep8 is a tool to check your Python code against some of the style conventions in PEP8.
- PyFlakes checks only for logical errors in programs; it does not perform any check on style.
- mccabe is a code complexity checker. It is quite useful to detect over-complex code. According to McCabe, anything that goes beyond 10 is too complex. See Cyclomatic_complexity.
- There are additional tools used to lint Python files:
- pydocstyle is a static analysis tool for checking compliance with Python PEP257.
- pep8-naming is a naming convention checker for Python.
- flake8-debugger is a flake8 debug statement checker.
- flake8-import-order is a flake8 plugin that checks import order in the fashion of the Google Python Style Guide (turned off by default).
Michael #4: Magic Wormhole
- Get things from one computer to another, safely.
- A library and a command-line tool named
wormhole
, which makes it possible to get arbitrary-sized files and directories (or short pieces of text) from one computer to another. - The two endpoints are identified by using identical "wormhole codes”
- Video from PyCon 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFrTqQw0_3c
- The codes are short and human-pronounceable, using a phonetically-distinct wordlist.
- As a library too: The wormhole module makes it possible for other applications to use these code-protected channels.
Brian #5: Python Virtual Environments Primer
- why do we need virtual environments
- what are they
- how to use them / how do they work
- also
- virtualenvwrapper
- using different versions of python
- pyvenv
Michael #6: How Rust can replace C, with Python's help
- Why Rust? Rust has
- a type system feature that helps eliminate memory leaks,
- proper interfaces, called 'traits',
- better type inference,
- better support for concurrency,
- (almost) first-class functions that can be passed as arguments.
- It isn’t difficult to expose Rust code to Python. A Rust library can expose a C ABI (application binary interface) to Python without too much work.
- Some Rust crates (as Rust packages are called) already expose Python bindings to make them useful in Python.
- A new spate of projects are making it easier to develop Rust libraries with convenient bindings to Python – and to deploy Python packages that have Rust binaries
- Rust-CPython:
- What it is: A set of bindings in Rust for the CPython runtime. This allows a Rust program to connect to CPython, use its ABI, run Python programs through it, and work with representations of Python objects in Rust itself.
- Who it’s for: Rust programmers who want to hook into CPython and control it from the inside out.
- PyO3
- What it is: For Rust developers, the PyO3 project provides a basic way to write Rust software with bindings to Python in both directions. A Rust program can interface with Python objects and the Python interpreter, and can expose Rust methods to a Python program in the same way a C module does.
- Who it’s for: Those writing modules that work closely with the Python runtime, and need to interact directly with it.
- Snaek
- What it is: Another project in the early stages, Snaek lets developers create Rust libraries that are loaded dynamically into Python as needed, but don’t rely on being linked statically against Python’s runtime.
- Doesn’t use CTypes but CFFI
- Who it’s for: Those who want to expose methods written in Rust to a Python script, or for Rust developers who don’t want or need to become familiar with Python.
- And there is a cookiecutter project / template too
- https://github.com/mckaymatt/cookiecutter-pypackage-rust-cross-platform-publish
- “A very important goal of the project,” writes its maintainers, “is that it be able to produce a binary distribution (Wheel) which will not require the end user to actually compile the Rust code themselves.”