Whenever I publish something about my Python Docker workflows, I invariably get challenged about whether it makes sense to use virtual environments in Docker containers. As always, it’s a trade-off, and I err on the side of standards and predictability. (more…)

Faust is a stream processing library, porting the ideas from Kafka Streams to Python. (more…)

Official Python Developers Survey 2020 Results by Python Software Foundation and JetBrains: more than 28k responses from more than 150 countries. (more…)

Someone recently brought up the new kid on the block, the httpx python package for http work of course. I mean the pypi packagerequests has been the de-facto standard forever. Can it really be overthrown? Is this a classic case of “oh how the mighty have ... (more…)

2to3 is a Python program that reads Python 2.x source code and applies a series of fixers to transform it into valid Python 3.x code. The standard library contains a rich set of fixers that will handle almost all code. 2to3 supporting library lib2to3 is...