#358 Collecting Shells

Topics covered in this episode:

• Django 5.0 beta 1 released
• git bash, terminals, and Windows
• Mastering Integration Testing with FastAPI
• Reuven Learner has been banned for trading in rare animals (Pythons and Pandas)
• Extras
• Joke

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Brian #1: Django 5.0 beta 1 released

• Django 5.0 release notes
  • supports Python 3.10, 3.11, 3.12
  • Facet filters in the admin
  • Simplified templates for form field rendering
  • Database-computed default values
  • Database generated model field
  • More options for declaring field choices
• More Django news
  • Djangonaut Space now accepting applications for our next contributor mentorship cohort
  • Take the Django Developers Survey 2023

Michael #2: git bash, terminals, and Windows

• See the screenshot
• Requires Windows 10
• Install the Windows Terminal from the Microsoft Store

Brian #3: Mastering Integration Testing with FastAPI

• Alex Jacobs
• Some great integration testing techniques
• Focused on FastAPI, but relevant to many frameworks.
  • Mocking authentication
  • Mocking external APIs
  • Fun use of parametrize and indirect fixtures for mocking responses.
  • Mocking MongoDB
  • Mocking AWS S3

Michael #4: Reuven Learner has been banned for trading in rare animals (Pythons and Pandas)

• via Pat Decker
• Reuven, like us, teaches Python and Data Sci
• Tried to advertise his courses (Python and Pandas courses) on Meta
• Got permanently (life-time) banned for selling rare and endangered animals.
• Sometimes I really hate these big tech companies
  • My recent beefs have been with app store reviewers and surveillance-based capitalism

Extras

Brian:

• Where did everyone go? - Ned Batchelder
  • I do feel like we’re more fragmented than before, but I am feeling like we have a community on Mastodon.
  • reminder that Mastodon has text search now
• On Sunday, I released Ch9, Coverage, as part of The Complete pytest course, specifically part of pytest Working with Projects.
  • It was super fun. I’ve used coverage a lot since writing the book, for example, I demonstrate branch coverage. It’s so much more effective to teach in video than in printed screenshots.

Michael:

• Autin shell enhancer by Ellie Huxtable recommended by recommended by Nik
• JupyterCon 2023 videos are out
• More shells follow up from Teemu Hukkanen for “editor like” features Zsh and Bash
• ruff format and strings, aka format.quote-style = "single"
• Glyph’s programming your computer talk is up.

Joke: this is what the experts do