#421 22 years old

Python Bytes

Topics covered in this episode:

• httpdbg
• PyPI Now Supports iOS and Android Wheels for Mobile Python Development
• Arcade Game Platform goes 3.0
• PEP 765 – Disallow return/break/continue that exit a finally block
• Extras
• Joke

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Michael #1: httpdbg

• A tool for Python developers to easily debug the HTTP(S) client requests in a Python program.
• To use it, execute your program using the pyhttpdbg command instead of python and that's it. Open a browser to http://localhost:4909 to view the requests

Brian #2: PyPI Now Supports iOS and Android Wheels for Mobile Python Development

• Sara Gooding
• “the Python Packaging Index (PyPI) has officially begun accepting and distributing pre-compiled binary packages, known as "wheels," for both iOS and Android platforms. “
• Next up, “cibuildwheel Updates Are in Progress to Simplify iOS and Android Wheel Creation”

Michael #3: Arcade Game Platform goes 3.0

• via Maic Siemering
• This is our first major release since 2022.
• It keeps the beginner-friendly API while adding power and efficiency.
• Arcade now supports both standard OpenGL and ShaderToy (www.shadertoy.com) a-shaders through a compatibility layer.
• Since 3.0 is a major release, the full list of changes is over in
• github.com/pythonarcade/arcade/blob/development/CHANGELOG.md

Brian #4: PEP 765 – Disallow return/break/continue that exit a finally block

• Accepted for Python 3.14
• I wouldn’t have thought to do this anyway, but it’s weird, so don’t.
• Will become a SyntaxWarning catchable by running with -We

Extras

Brian:

• Correction: Niki Tonsky was originator of “Pride Versioning”. Thanks Nikita
• Correction: Scheme is actually awesome. Brian is just a curmudgeon
• Also: pytest-rerunfailures is good for exposing flaky tests
• And apparently me being wrong was a great to get at least one person to blog more.
  • Cheers Filip Łajszczak

Michael:

• Tea pot follow up
  • While you're right that some software actually had this implemented, Python does not. It's not an officially accepted HTTP status code, it was proposed in a 'joke' RFC. I guess Python - even though its name comes from the funny TV series Monty Python - is not so funny. httpx, your (or at least -my-) favorite HTTP module for python, does have the I_AM_A_TEAPOT constant.
  • By the way, there are some HTTP status codes that changed their names in RFC 9110, for instance, http.HTTPStatus.UNPROCESSABLE_CONTENT (422, previously UNPROCESSABLE_ENTITY)
• Pride follow up fosstodon.org/@kytta/114034442981727301
• Time to upgrade your mini?

Joke: How old is she?