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Start the Week - Maps – lost, secret and revealing
The Library of Lost Maps by James Cheshire, Professor of Geographic Information and Cartography, tells the story of the discovery of a treasure-trove at the heart of University College London. In a long-forgotten room James found thousands of maps and atlases. This abandoned archive reveals how maps have traced the contours of the world, inspiring some of the greatest scientific discoveries, as well as leading to terrible atrocities and power grabs.
But maps have not always been used to navigate or reveal the world, according to a new exhibition at the British Library on Secret Maps (from 24 October 2025 to 18 January 2026). Jerry Brotton, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London, and author of Four Points of the Compass, explains how mysterious maps throughout history have been used to hide, shape and control knowledge.
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Python Bytes - #454 It’s some form of Elvish
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- GitHub’s official command line tool
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- Checking out a pull request locally
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Brian:
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- Interesting discussion on Hugo’s post - on Mastodon
- Use lazy module imports now - Graham Dumpleton
- Graham’s post uses wrapt, a “module for decorators, wrappers and monkey patching”, to simulate lazy imports
- Helpful comment from Adam Johnson on Graham’s post to actually do the import during type checking using
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Michael:
- uvloop is back!
- pypi+ listened. :)
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1o9dey5/i_just_released_pypipluscom_20_offlineready/
- Feedback from my “Show me your ls” post.
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