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Michael #1: pycountry
- A Python library to access ISO country, subdivision, language, currency and script definitions and their translations.
- pycountry provides the ISO databases for the standards:
- 639-3 Languages
- 3166 Codes for representation of names of countries and their subdivisions
- 3166-1 Countries
- 3166-3 Deleted countries
- 3166-2 Subdivisions of countries
- 4217 Currencies
- 15924 Scripts
Brian #2: Does Python have pointers?
- Ned Batchelder
- Turns out, this is really the description of “what’s a variable in Python?” that helps to make sense of the “variables as names” model in Python, especially for people coming from languages that use pointers a lot.
- You can use id() to find out what a variable points to
- You just can’t do the reverse of access it given an id.
- There’s no “dereference” operator.
- See also Python Names and Values, also by Ned
- Should be required reading/viewing for all Python curriculum.
Michael #3: ingestr
- ingestr is a command-line application that allows ingesting or copying data from any source into any destination database.
- Works on both MongoDB and Postgres and many more.
- incremental loading: append, merge or delete+insert
Brian #4: Make your terminal nice
- David Lord
- David’s switched to Fish and Starship
- I tried switching to Fish several times, and I guess I’m good with zsh.
- Although I admire the brave comic sans motto: “Finally, a command line shell for the 90s”
- But I’m finally ready for Starship, and it takes almost no time to set up
- Plus it’s fast. (Has it always been Rust?)
Extras
Brian:
- Doing some groundwork for a SaaS project, using SaaS Pegasus
- I just talked with Cory from Pegasus for an upcoming PythonTest episode
- I haven’t decided whether to save up SaaS episodes for one big series, or spread them out.
- But mostly I’m excited to get my project started.
Michael:
Joke: Anti-social engineer