Python: join my optimization workshop in Lisbon, 10th October 🔗
I’m running a workshop in Lisbon next month, and you’re invited! It’s a small, in-person, hands-on session on optimizing Python code, with a Django fl [...]
Adam Johnson
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Django: serve the change password well-known URL 🔗
When a password manager detects that a user’s password has been leaked or reused, it can prompt them to change it, but the password change URL varies [...]
Django: introducing django-mcpz, for making MCP servers 🔗
I made another package! Say hello to django-mcpz, for building Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers in your Django project. The package tagline is eas [...]
Zsh: manipulate filenames with modifiers like :r (root) and :e (extension) 🔗
Zsh modifiers are a family of suffixes that transform words as they’re expanded. Several of them are dedicated to slicing up filenames, replacing fidd [...]
Django: django-upgrade 1.32.0 out now, with 44 AI-assisted bug fixes 🔗
django-upgrade is my tool for automatically upgrading your project code for new Django versions. It rewrites your Python files to fix deprecations and [...]
Python: use re.prefixmatch() instead of re.match() from Python 3.15 🔗
Take this validation function: import re TRAIN_NUMBER_RE = re.compile(r"\d{6}") # six digits def is_valid_train_number(value: str) -> bool: re [...]
Python: fix SyntaxWarning: invalid octal escape sequence 🔗
Take this code: path = "C:\477_data" If we run this with Python 3.11+ in development mode (to enable deprecation warnings), we will see: $ python3.11 [...]
Python: fix TypeError: NamedTuple() got an unexpected keyword argument 🔗
Take this code, defining a small NamedTuple with a keyword argument per field: from typing import NamedTuple Point = NamedTuple("Point", x=int, y=int [...]
Python: introducing emojet, a fast emoji lookup library 🔗
New package just landed! emojet is an emoji library for Python: it converts between emoji and their names, in both directions, plus the searching and [...]
Python: tprof 1.3.0: now with less overhead 🔗
Back in January, I introduced tprof, a targeting profiler for Python 3.12+ that measures the time spent in specific functions, rather than your whole [...]