Python Bytes: #413 python-build-standalone finds a home

<strong>Topics covered in this episode:</strong><br> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/pydantic/jiter?featured_on=pythonbytes"><strong>jiter</strong></a></li> <li><strong><a href="https://astral.sh/blog/python-build-standalone?featured_on=pythonbytes">A new home for python-build-standalone</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="https://github.com/deliro/moka-py?featured_on=pythonbytes">moka-py</a></strong></li> <li><a href="https://www.saaspegasus.com/guides/uv/?featured_on=pythonbytes"><strong>uv: An In-Depth Guide</strong></a></li> <li><strong>Extras</strong></li> <li><strong>Joke</strong></li> </ul><a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvXY0H3bb4Q' style='font-weight: bold;'data-umami-event="Livestream-Past" data-umami-event-episode="413">Watch on YouTube</a><br> <p><strong>About the show</strong></p> <p>Sponsored by us! 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Usually <strong>Monday</strong> at 10am PT. Older video versions available there too.</p> <p>Finally, if you want an artisanal, hand-crafted digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to <a href="https://pythonbytes.fm/friends-of-the-show">our friends of the show list</a>, we'll never share it.</p> <p><strong>Michael #1:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/pydantic/jiter?featured_on=pythonbytes"><strong>jiter</strong></a></p> <ul> <li>Fast iterable JSON parser.</li> <li>About to be the backend for Pydantic and Logfire. </li> <li>Currently powers OpenAI / ChatGPT (along with Pydantic itself), at least their Python library, maybe more.</li> <li>jiter has three interfaces: <ul> <li>JsonValue an enum representing JSON data</li> <li>Jiter an iterator over JSON data</li> <li>PythonParse which parses a JSON string into a Python object</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/pydantic/jiter/tree/main/crates/jiter-python?featured_on=pythonbytes">jiter-python</a> - This is a standalone version of the JSON parser used in pydantic-core. The recommendation is to only use this package directly if you do not use pydantic</li> </ul> <p><strong>Brian #2:</strong> <a href="https://astral.sh/blog/python-build-standalone?featured_on=pythonbytes">A new home for python-build-standalone</a></p> <ul> <li>Charlie Marsh</li> <li>See also <a href="https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2024/12/03/transferring-python-build-standalone-stewardship-to-astral/?featured_on=pythonbytes">Transferring Python Build Standalone Stewardship to Astral</a> from Gregory Szorc</li> <li>python-build-standalone is the project that has prebuilt binaries for different architectures.</li> <li>used by uv python install 3.12 and uv venv .venv --python 3.12 and uv sync</li> <li>This is good stability news for everyone.</li> <li>Interesting discussion of <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/crmarsh.com/post/3lch35lrdi224?featured_on=pythonbytes">prebuilt Python from Charlie</a></li> </ul> <p><strong>Michael #3:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/deliro/moka-py?featured_on=pythonbytes">moka-py</a></p> <ul> <li>A high performance caching library for Python written in Rust</li> <li><strong>moka-py</strong> is a Python binding for the highly efficient <a href="https://github.com/moka-rs/moka?featured_on=pythonbytes">Moka</a> caching library written in Rust. </li> <li>This library allows you to leverage the power of Moka's high-performance, feature-rich cache in your Python projects.</li> <li>Features <ul> <li><strong>Synchronous Cache:</strong> Supports thread-safe, in-memory caching for Python applications.</li> <li><strong>TTL Support:</strong> Automatically evicts entries after a configurable time-to-live (TTL).</li> <li><strong>TTI Support:</strong> Automatically evicts entries after a configurable time-to-idle (TTI).</li> <li><strong>Size-based Eviction:</strong> Automatically removes items when the cache exceeds its size limit using the TinyLFU policy.</li> <li><strong>Concurrency:</strong> Optimized for high-performance, concurrent access in multi-threaded environments.</li> </ul></li> </ul> <p><strong>Brian #4:</strong> <a href="https://www.saaspegasus.com/guides/uv/?featured_on=pythonbytes"><strong>uv: An In-Depth Guide</strong></a></p> <ul> <li>On SaaS Pegasus blog, so presumably by Cory Zue</li> <li>Good intro to uv</li> <li>Also a nice list of everyday commands <ul> <li>Install python: uv python install 3.12 <ul> <li>I don’t really use this anymore, as uv venv .venv --python 3.12 or uv sync install if necessary</li> </ul></li> <li>create a virtual env: uv venv .venv --python 3.12</li> <li>install stuff: uv pip install django</li> <li>add project dependencies</li> <li>build pinned dependencies</li> </ul></li> <li>Also discussion about adopting the new workflow</li> </ul> <p><strong>Extras</strong> </p> <p>Brian:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://ai.pydantic.dev/?featured_on=pythonbytes">PydanticAI</a> - not sure why I didn’t see that coming</li> <li>In the “good to know” and “commentary on society” area: <ul> <li><a href="https://bsky.social/about/blog/08-28-2024-anti-toxicity-features?featured_on=pythonbytes">Anti-Toxicity Features on Bluesky</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/the-wired-guide-to-protecting-yourself-from-government-surveillance/?featured_on=pythonbytes">The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance</a></li> </ul></li> </ul> <p>Michael:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/mikeckennedy?featured_on=pythonbytes">Go sponsor a bunch of projects on GitHub</a></li> <li><a href="https://us.pycon.org/2025/attend/information/?featured_on=pythonbytes">Registration is open for PyCon</a></li> </ul> <p><strong>Joke:</strong> <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/bitshammer.bsky.social/post/3lbzmqkykh22g?featured_on=pythonbytes">Inf</a></p> <p><img src="https://blobs.pythonbytes.fm/infinite-loop.jpg" alt="" /></p>