What’s a “FOCK”?

Wdym? It’s a text about the lesser known features and changes in Python 3.13.

Nice I guess it’s time to check if my daily used libraries have stable 3.12 releases already.

I guess the free-threaded mode and the JIT compiler will be the most important features from what I read, but their significance is out of my expertise.

My absolute favorite with this update is the new REPL! It features Multiline-editing and a paste mode for easier pasting code. It also added the spaces automatically in my example.

Sometimes I want to make some quick tests on some data in the terminal without installing IPython to my environment first, this is great news!

This new error message will also be very useful for beginners and relieve StackOverflow:

AttributeError: module 'numpy' has no attribute 'array' (consider renaming '/home/me/numpy.py' if it has the same name as a third-party module you intended to import)

Yes, mamba is a huge improvement. Regarding docker I can’t really tell you as I’m not an infrastructure guy.

We do geodata science and rely on some pretty specific C++ libraries that are only distributed via conda. While on unix-based systems it’s possible to get some of them from other channels or even building them from source, we mostly have Windows machines in production where we are not that flexible. Docker is unfortunately no solution due to security concerns.

If you are asking why I hate it: It’s bloated, uses more space than needed and it’s rare I can reproduce an environment from the environment file without running into errors. Using it feels unintuitive, I still google command after years. It was very slow until recently, when the libmamba solver was finally integrated. Last but not least licensing is a pain in the ass.

In my field we rely on conda and I hate it every day.

I just wanted to make a joke, but tbh I really didn’t know so thanks for telling me

Tell this guy

Is Android immutable?