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Python Bytes - #461 This episdoe has a typo

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Michael #1: PEP 798: Unpacking in Comprehensions

  • After careful deliberation, the Python Steering Council is pleased to accept PEP 798 – Unpacking in Comprehensions.
  • Examples

    [*it for it in its]  # list with the concatenation of iterables in 'its'
    {*it for it in its}  # set with the union of iterables in 'its'
    {**d for d in dicts} # dict with the combination of dicts in 'dicts'
    (*it for it in its)  # generator of the concatenation of iterables in 'its'
    
  • Also: The Steering Council is happy to unanimously accept “PEP 810, Explicit lazy imports”

Brian #2: Pandas 3.0.0rc0

  • Pandas 3.0.0 will be released soon, and we’re on Release candidate 0
  • Here’s What’s new in Pands 3.0.0
    • Dedicated string data type by default
      • Inferred by default for string data (instead of object dtype)
      • The str dtype can only hold strings (or missing values), in contrast to object dtype. (setitem with non string fails)
      • The missing value sentinel is always NaN (np.nan) and follows the same missing value semantics as the other default dtypes.
    • Copy-on-Write
      • The result of any indexing operation (subsetting a DataFrame or Series in any way, i.e. including accessing a DataFrame column as a Series) or any method returning a new DataFrame or Series, always behaves as if it were a copy in terms of user API.
      • As a consequence, if you want to modify an object (DataFrame or Series), the only way to do this is to directly modify that object itself.
    • pd.col syntax can now be used in DataFrame.assign() and DataFrame.loc()
      • You can now do this: df.assign(c = pd.col('a') + pd.col('b'))
    • New Deprecation Policy
    • Plus more
  • -

Michael #3: typos

Like codespell, typos checks for known misspellings instead of only allowing words from a dictionary. But typos has some extra features I really appreciate, like finding spelling mistakes inside snake_case or camelCase words. For example, if you have the line:

*connecton_string = "sqlite:///my.db"*

codespell won't find the misspelling, but typos will. It gave me the output:

*error: `connecton` should be `connection`, `connector`  
╭▸ ./main.py:1:1  │1  connecton_string = "sqlite:///my.db"  
╰╴━━━━━━━━━*

But the main advantage for me is that typos has an LSP that supports editor integrations like a VS Code extension. As far as I can tell, codespell doesn't support editor integration. (Note that the popular Code Spell Checker VS Code extension is an unrelated project that uses a traditional dictionary approach.)

For more on the differences between codespell and typos, here's a comparison table I found in the typos repo: https://github.com/crate-ci/typos/blob/master/docs/comparison.md

By the way, though it's not mentioned in the installation instructions, typos is published on PyPI and can be installed with uv tool install typos, for example. That said, I don't bother installing it, I just use the VS Code extension and run it as a pre-commit hook. (By the way, I'm using prek instead of pre-commit now; thanks for the tip on episode #448!) It looks like typos also publishes a GitHub action, though I haven't used it.

Brian #4: A couple testing topics

  • slowlify
    • suggested by Brian Skinn
    • Simulate slow, overloaded, or resource-constrained machines to reproduce CI failures and hunt flaky tests.
    • Requires Linux with cgroups v2
  • Why your mock breaks later
    • Ned Badthelder
    • Ned’s taught us before to “Mock where the object is used, not where it’s defined.”
    • To be more explicit, but probably more confusing to mock-newbies, “don’t mock things that get imported, mock the object in the file it got imported to.”
      • See? That’s probably worse. Anyway, read Ned’s post.
    • If my project myproduct has user.py that uses the system builtin open() and we want to patch it:
      • DONT DO THIS: @patch("builtins.open")
        • This patches open() for the whole system
      • DO THIS: @patch("myproduct.user.open")
        • This patches open() for just the user.py file, which is what we want
    • Apparently this issue is common and is mucking up using coverage.py

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