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• pirel: Python release cycle in your terminal
• FastAPI Cloud
• Python's new t-strings
• Extras
• Joke

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Michael #1: pirel: Python release cycle in your terminal

• pirel check shows release information about your active Python interpreter.
• If the active version is end-of-life, the program exits with code 1. If no active Python interpreter is found, the program exits with code 2.
• pirel list lists all Python releases in a table. Your active Python interpreter is highlighted.
• A picture is worth many words

Brian #2: FastAPI Cloud

• Sebastián Ramírez, creator of FastAPI, announced today the formation of a new Company, FastAPI Cloud.
• Here’s the announcement blog post: FastAPI Cloud - By The Same Team Behind FastAPI
• There’s a wait list to try it out.
• Promises to turns deployment into fastapi login; fastapi deploy
• Side note: announcement includes quote from Daft Punk: Build Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
  • I just included this in a talk I’m gave last week (and will again next week), where I modify this to “Build Easier, Better, Faster, Stronger”
  • Sebastian and I are both fans of the rocket emoji.
• BTW, we first covered FastAPI on episode 123 in 2019

Brian #3: Python's new t-strings

• Dave Peck, one of the authors of PEP 750, which will go into Python 3.14
• We covered t-strings in ep 428
• In article
  • t-strings security benefits over f-strings
  • How to work with t-strings
  • A Pig Latin example
    • Also, I think I have always done this wrong
    • Is it the first consonant to the end? or the first consonant cluster?
    • So… Brian → Rianbay? or Ianbray?
    • BTW, this is an example of nerdgassing
  • What’s next once t-strings ship?
• On thing that’s next (in Python 3.15, maybe, is using t-strings in shlex and subprocess)
  • PEP 787 – Safer subprocess usage using t-strings deferred to 3.15

Michael #4: zev

• A simple CLI tool to help you remember terminal commands.

• Examples:

  # Find running processes
  zev 'show all running python processes'
  # File operations
  zev 'find all .py files modified in the last 24 hours'
  # System information
  zev 'show disk usage for current directory'
  # Network commands
  zev 'check if google.com is reachable'
  # Git operations
  zev 'show uncommitted changes in git'
  

• Again, picture worth many words:

Extras

Brian:

• Holy Grail turns 50
• nerdgassing

Michael:

• Transcripts are a bit better now.
• Zen is better now

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Python has many string formatting styles which have been added to the language over the years. Early Python used the % operator to injected formatted values into strings. And we have string.format() which offers several powerful styles. Both were verbose and indirect, so f-strings were added in Python 3.6. But these f-strings lacked security features (think little bobby tables) and they manifested as fully-formed strings to runtime code. Today we talk about the next evolution of Python string formatting for advanced use-cases (SQL, HTML, DSLs, etc): t-strings. We have Paul Everitt, David Peck, and Jim Baker on the show to introduce this upcoming new language feature.

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