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Python Bytes
Intro
This chapter delves into debugging HTTP calls in Python, highlighting the significance of testing and troubleshooting. It introduces the HTTP Debug tool, which helps developers monitor and visualize HTTP and HTTPS requests to improve their coding practices.
- 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?
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