mara @mara@systerserver.town

python's new package manager is called poetry! kudos to the inspiring name :) this tutorial has some cute illustrations, and am glad to see more hand-drawn graphics (by @dimitryzub) made for tech docs:
https://serpapi.com/blog/python-virtual-environments-using-virtualenv-and-poetry/

#python #docs

is it still black friday?
time to release a new zine in the public domain.

https://psaroskalazines.gr/pdf/deconstruct_mailman.pdf

kudos to @entreprecariat for the content review

#zine #mailman #python

Why chained comparisons in Python don't return obvious boolean results when used without parentheses:
0 < 1 == True (returns False)
(0 < 1) == True (returns True)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48054932/python-operators-math-precedence-comparison-operators-vs-equality-operators

#python

This kind of unexpected comments cheers me up 🐍
class timedelta:
"""Represent the difference between two datetime objects.
[...]
Representation: (days, seconds, microseconds). Why? Because I felt like it.
"""
#python #sourcecode

A terminal based slides show where you can type python code? o_O

https://bitbucket.org/zzzeek/sliderepl

#python #tech #slides

Good news, I start code teaching this week, creating lessons structure and content for https://kodekloud.com/
They have some classes for free too.
I start with the beginners python class.
#education #python #code

Cover tests for next zine about mailman3. Scripted with python library FPDF.

#design #python #zine

I'm working on a A5 zine pdf generator with python's FPDF library. It takes a text as an input, including image filenames too, and creates an A4 signatures of 2 pages. If you like to peep in the code:
https://gist.github.com/m4ra/fa17c1d402cd1d893d470de54a55e63e

The second file is the latest version, subclassing the FPDF.
I'll be adding future versions as new files.
And yes, it's on github for now, sue me :P

#pdf #script #zine #python

Working on a mail-lists migration workshop, and oh my! Mailman3 is a beast! It gave up pipermail archive and simple web interface for django sites, both for archives and website. And I'm a django junky, but still.. I prefer the simple old mailman2 site.

#python, #opensource #mailman