• Loop targets


• asyncstdlib


• Bagels: TUI Expense Tracker


• rloop: An AsyncIO event loop implemented in Rust


• Extras


• Joke

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Brian #1: Loop targets

• Ned Batchelder


• I don’t think I would have covered this had it not been the surprising opposition to Ned’s code.



• Here’s the snippet:

  
  
  

  params = {
    "query": QUERY,
    "page_size": 100,
  }
  *# Get page=0, page=1, page=2, ...*
  **for** params["page"] in itertools.count():
    data = requests.get(SEARCH_URL, params).json()
    **if** not data["results"]:
      **break**
    ...
  




• Ned is utilizing the assignment in the for loop to use the value of count() and store it into the params["page"].



• The article includes another version with a temp variable page_num, which I think the naysayers would prefer.


• But frankly, I think both are fine. Why not put the value right where you want it?

Michael #2: asyncstdlib

• The asyncstdlib library re-implements functions and classes of the Python standard library to make them compatible with async callables, iterables and context managers.


• It is fully agnostic to async event loops and seamlessly works with asyncio, third-party libraries such as trio, as well as any custom async event loop.


• Full set of async versions of advantageous standard library helpers, such as zip, map, enumerate, functools.reduce, itertools.tee, itertools.groupby and many others.


• Safe handling of async iterators to ensure prompt cleanup, as well as various helpers to simplify safely using custom async iterators.


• Small but powerful toolset to seamlessly integrate existing sync code into async programs and libraries.

Brian #3: Bagels: TUI Expense Tracker

• Jax Tam



• “Bagels expense tracker is a TUI application where you can track and analyse your money flow, with convenience oriented features and a complete interface.




• Why an expense tracker in the terminal? I found it easier to build a habit and keep an accurate track of my expenses if I do it at the end of the day, instead of on the go. So why not in the terminal where it's fast, and I can keep all my data locally?”




• Who hasn’t wanted to write their own expense tracker?



• This implementation is fun for lots of reasons
  
  
  
  • It’s still new and pretty small, so forking it for your own uses should be easy
  
  
  • Built on textual is fun
  
  
  • install instructions based on uv tool seems to be the new normal:
    
    
    
    • uv tool install --python 3.13 bagels
    
    
  
  
  • test suite started
  
  
  • pretty useful as is, actually
  
  
  • Nice that it includes a roadmap of future goals
  
  
  • Would be a fun project to help out with for anyone looking for anyone looking for a shiny new codebase to contribute to.
  
  

Michael #4: rloop: An AsyncIO event loop implemented in Rust

• An AsyncIO event loop implemented in Rust


• From Giovanni Barillari, Creator of Granian


• RLoop is an AsyncIO event loop implemented in Rust on top of the mio crate.


• Disclaimer: This is a work in progress and definitely not ready for production usage.


• Run asyncio.set_event_loop_policy(rloop.EventLoopPolicy()) and done.


• Similar to uvloop.

Extras

Brian:

• I’m currently listening to Four Thousand Weeks - Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman for the second time. Highly recommend.


• Development Advent Calendars for 2024 - Adrian Roselli


• Black Friday at PythonTest.com

Michael:

• Docker cluster monitor


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• Back on #277 we talked about StrEnum. Got a nice chance to use it this weekend.


• Maybe Finance


• Go sponsor a bunch of projects on GitHub


• Black Friday at Talk Python

Joke: CTRL + X onion