Takes from pyconil 2022
First in person conference I attend since Covid-19, was fun to meet some of the familiar faces and meet a few new ones. I’ve tried live tweeting, but seem like I’m not very good at it. (I’m better at hijacking others live tweets)
Day 1
Keynote
Keynote speaker couldn’t make it, and was replaced by a panel of the known experts in python While Sim Zacks asks them popular questions about python
@alonisser and I were a bit surprised, and live tweeted the panel session:
Hidden cost of your favorite function
@mayaGBar was talking about reason to profile, and the importance of looking under the hood of the utilities and functions we use and demonstrated using a profiler comparing different numpy function to achieve the same goal.
Hidden Hacks in Linters for Better & More Secure Code
@gemanor explained about a use case he and his team need to build lint checkers for block different personas form doing things that shouldn’t.
even that he introduce him self as non-pythonista (“alien” in his words), he managed to showcase a high level python craftsmanship, and a fun talk overall. he’s my MVP for this day
What happens when you import a module?
@reuvenmlerner with very interesting talk about how exactly the import system works while showing how to implement some parts of it.
while drinking the morning coffee, we had a talk with Reuven (me and someone I don’t remember his name..) about possible use-cases for using importlib.
one was for decryption of the sourcecode before executing it, to safeguard the patented algorithms and company secrets.
and my use case of using it for testing script that were meant to be run as main module. which is a nice way to avoid using subprocess, so mocks can be used: https://github.com/scylladb/scylla/pull/10809/files#diff-a9fc368799be893485a61ba81b9b736b2f3f9918a228351e7d6abe7293011584R104
Off road profiling - when the automated profilers just don’t cut it.
@ShacharSh goes over how to manually profile some bits of code, and how the
project he built manprof can help with that.
that was last talk for the day, and I’ve could really concentrate on tweeting about it, but it was very nice to see Shachar talk, and improvise punchlines at the right time like when someone’s phone rang during his talk.
It was a shame that his package isn’t yet public (said something about legal didn’t yet improve, which always makes me a bit sad, that those processes are never straight forward)
הדרן עלך יום ראשון
let see how it goes tomorrow