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Brian #1: PythonGUIS

• Martin Fitzpatrick
• A site with a collection of resources, guides, books, comparisons, etc, around GUIs in Python.
• Martin recommends starting with PyQT6
• However, there are tutorials covering
  • PyQT6
  • PySide6
  • PyQT5
  • TkInter
  • PySide
  • even Kivy

Michael #2: JupyterLab 4.0 is Here

• The next major release of our full-featured development environment
• You can upgrade by running pip install --upgrade jupyterlab or conda install -c conda-forge jupyterlab.
• JupyterLab is now faster, thanks to improvements such as CSS rules optimization, CodeMirror 6, MathJax 3, and notebook windowing. JupyterLab 3 was when working with large notebooks.
• There are additional performance improvements available via opt-in settings:
  • Faster tab-switching on Chromium browsers:
  • “Settings” → “JupyterLab Shell” → switch “Hidden mode” to “contentVisibility”
  • Better performance with long notebooks:
  • “Settings” → “Notebook” → switch “Windowing mode” to “full”
• An upgraded text editor.
• Better real time collaboration.
• Bug fixes. More than 100 bugs have been addressed and resolved, enhancing JupyterLab’s stability and performance.

Brian #3: Proposing a struct syntax for Python

• Brett Cannon
• This would be a cool syntax for a data only type: struct Point(x: int, y: int)
• No positional only parameters
• No inheritance
• No methods
• Instances would be immutable, so p = Point(1, 2) would create an object that could be used as a key.
• A data only focused set of types.

Michael #4: Python 3.13 Removes 20 Stdlib Modules

• via PyCoders
• From PEP 594 – Removing dead batteries from the standard library we’re saying goodbye to
  • aifc, audioop, cgi, cgitb, chunk, crypt, imghdr, mailcap, msilib, nis, nntplib, ossaudiodev, pipes, sndhdr, spwd, sunau, telnetlib, uu, xdrlib
• As well as the 2to3 program and lib2to3 module in Python.
• Python 3.12 final release is scheduled in 4 months (October 2023) and Python 3.13 final release is scheduled in 1 year and 4 months (October 2024).

Extras

Brian:

• Affirming your PSF Membership voting status
  • You have until June 15 to affirm your voting rights in the upcoming Board Election, if you care about such things.

Michael:

• 5 Career Tips for Budding Python Developers video
• PyCon US 2023 videos are up
• Python 3.11.4, 3.10.12, 3.9.17, 3.8.17, 3.7.17, and 3.12.0 beta 2 are now available

Joke: Snorkel not included