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Python BDFL. Working at Dropbox. The 'van' has no capital letter!

San Francisco Bay Area
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Joined August 2008
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  1. In reply to
    May 31

    . Sadly that's up to Apple and they have not been very Python friendly lately. PSF downloads are at

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  3. May 30

    Pep8 is dead, long live pycodestyle!

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  4. May 30

    How much is Python 3 used in education (vs. Python 2)? Data from |cc:

    10:59 AM - 30 May 2016 · Details
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  6. May 28

    Larry is going to perform a gilectomy.

    Larry about removing the GIL from
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  8. May 27

    The mypy team will be doing mypy clinics at the PyCon sprints next week:

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  9. May 26

    Django Girls event in Lahore, Pakistan!

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  10. May 25

    Randall should really switch to 4-space indents. :-)

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  13. May 19

    Congrats on receiving the Frank Willison Award. Well-deserved!

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  14. May 18

    We have a major update of PEP 483 (background for type hints) from new author Ivan Levkivskyi:

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  15. May 18

    PEP 484 is update with new feature: Type[C]:

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  16. May 18

    New blog post: Type annotations for fspath.

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  17. May 18

    New blog post (part 2): Type annotations for fspath

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  18. May 17

    New blog post about AnyStr in PEP 484:

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  19. May 15

    In case you wondered who maintains PyPI...

    I wrote a new blog post — Powering the Python Package Index —
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    May 13

    . OMG I went to the T-shirt print shop myself to get those printed! Design by

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    May 13

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  22. In reply to
    May 13

    . My favorite Python error message: >>> from __future__ import braces File "<stdin>", line 1 SyntaxError: not a chance >>>

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  23. May 9

    Today's explain XKCD is particularly bad -- seeing the jokes explained poorly makes them less funny. :-(

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    May 8

    . Please stop tweeting me about decade-old book reviews.

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  25. May 7

    46 across: Programming language named for a comedy group.

    10:47 AM - 7 May 2016 · Details
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  26. May 5

    mypy 0.4 released today! 'pip install mypy-lang'

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  27. May 5

    Been talking about this a bit, but Adrian nails it.

    I dusted off the blog and wrote about the history of “well-crafted” websites. Here’s some nostalgia for ya:
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    May 5

    . I dream of gradual typing these nights.

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  29. May 3

    Yay asyncio on steroids!

    Alright! Blazing fast Python networking:
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  30. Apr 27

    New blog post:

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  31. Apr 22

    Random: I love to use A=abstract class, B=base class, C=class, D=derived class...

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  32. Apr 14

    Kite looks pretty cool: machine-learning applied to programming in Python. (If only Emacs integration was ready. :-)

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  33. Apr 14

    OH: "A risk of a bug every 584 years is acceptable."

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  35. Apr 5

    Going to in Portland OR this year? Come to our mypy talk:

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    Apr 4

    . You bet! Many starting points are collected here:

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  37. Mar 30

    Walmart: fail. Best Buy: over half an hour to find someone who knew where the item was. Finally all set. Moral: don't get a OnePlus phone.

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  38. Mar 30

    Help! Where can I buy a USB-C cable for my OnePlus2 phone in Orlando near Disney world? I'm leaving today for the Gulf Coast.

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    Mar 17

    . Yeah, Sunday 5/29 from 1:30-3pm. Sponsored by Dropbox.

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  40. Mar 9

    BBC microbit w/ Python launching!

    you are officially a god! Filming python editor today, kids flying with python. Debugging with micro:bit line info inspired.
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  41. Feb 23

    Great deep-dive by about async/await in Python 3.5:

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  42. Feb 21

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  43. Feb 22

    PYTHON FLAGS ENABLE THREE LAWS

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  45. Feb 17

    Here are our Keynote speakers! They are plus regulars !

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  46. Feb 15

    Oh the places Python goes! Congrats PyCon Namibia on a successful workshop.

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  49. Jan 21

    Wonder about Python version lifespans? Wonder no more!

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  50. Jan 19

    What?! Sarah Palin is still a thing? Unbelievable!

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