Episode 14: Integration Events

core.py

We’ve been gone all Summer, visiting two European conferences in the mean time. In this episode we’re talking about them both, talks we liked, as well as our own talks at those events. In a rare turn of events, this one was recorded in person at Łukasz’s home studio in Poznań!

## Outline

(00:00:00) INTRO

(00:01:30) PART 1: EuroPython highlights

(00:02:03) Maintaining pyrepl forward with pypy

(00:05:51) Mai Giménez and her keynote

(00:09:30) Yuliia Barabash and Laysa Uchoa talk memory management

(00:11:03) Core developer panel and sprints

(00:11:56) The abyss stares back at Pablo

(00:18:21) Disappointing

(00:25:50) Łukasz and the all-singing all-dancing pyrepl

(00:33:52) Hackable REPL = new contributors

(00:40:24) PART 2: PyCon PL

(00:42:24) An integration event

(00:44:45) Say No To Notebooks

(00:48:32) Pablo's grandfather's axe

(00:56:00) LL1 made Python easy to read for humans, too

(00:59:29) Python and triangles in the browser

(01:06:16) PART 3: PR OF THE WEEK

(01:13:08) PART 4: WHAT'S GOING ON IN CPYTHON

(01:13:32) HACL* blake2

(01:15:29) New methods on pathlib.Path objects

(01:16:28) PyIter_GetNext

(01:17:20) PyLong_FromInt64

(01:18:07) CALL_ALLOC_AND_ENTER_INIT suitable for Tier 2

(01:19:09) Tier 2 support for BINARY_SUBSCR_GETITEM

(01:19:26) Removal of the CHECK_EVAL_BREAKER macro

(01:20:11) Don't be a jerk on GitHub

(01:21:30) Per-thread heap type refcounts

(01:22:29) Pickling by name for object without __module__ is now faster

(01:23:12) CVE-2024-7592 fixed

(01:24:11) Free threading memory leaks at interpreter shutdown

(01:25:34) The "What's New in 3.13" document getting some love

(01:26:32) Recursion-guarding code improved in the compiler

(01:27:13) A new Android test script for running with emulators

(01:27:28) Core sprint week at Meta coming up!

(01:29:53) OUTRO