Wandering Thoughts archives

2021-12-29:	Pipx's 'reinstall' command works right by reinstalling injected packages too
2021-12-22:	Using `pipx` in a PyPy installation more or less just works
2021-11-28:	The problem I have with Pip's dependency version handling
2021-11-05:	If we use PyPy, we'll likely use our own install of it
2021-10-31:	Python 3 forced its own hand so that standard input had to be Unicode
2021-10-29:	Things to do in Python 3 when your Unix standard input is badly encoded
2021-10-22:	Python 2's status in various Linux distributions (October 2021 edition)
2021-10-05:	Some early notes on using pipx for managing third-party Python programs
2021-09-16:	Use virtual environments to install third-party Python programs from PyPI
2021-09-15:	Some notes on upgrading programs with Python's pip
2021-08-22:	What we'll likely do when Linux distributions drop Python 2 entirely Setting up Python LSP support in GNU Emacs is reasonably worth it
2021-07-22:	Apache's mod_wsgi and the Python 2 issue it creates
2021-07-08:	A semi-surprise with Python's urllib.parse and partial URLs
2021-06-28:	I should keep track of what Python packages I install through `pip`
2021-06-10:	Early notes on using the new python-lsp-server (pylsp) in GNU Emacs
2021-05-20:	The temptation to start using some Python type hints
2021-05-08:	It's pleasantly easy to install PyPy yourself (from their binaries)
2021-04-23:	How I want to use pip with PyPy to install third party programs
2021-04-20:	PyPy starts fast enough for our Python 2 commands
2021-03-08:	Packaging Python 2 doesn't mean that Linux distributions support it
2021-03-02:	The Python `ctypes` security issue and Python 2
2021-02-13:	Where the default values for Python function arguments are stored
2021-02-12:	An interesting issue around using `is` with a literal in Python
2021-01-25:	Time for Python 2 users to make sure we have a copy of Pip and other pieces
2021-01-13:	Installing Pip in Python 2 environments that don't provide it already

(Previous year | Next year)

By month for 2021: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec; before 2021; after 2021.