May 05, 2025

#431 Nerd Gas

29 minutes

Topics covered in this episode:

pirel: Python release cycle in your terminal

FastAPI Cloud

Python's new t-strings

Extras

Joke

Watch on YouTube

About the show

Sponsored by NordLayer: pythonbytes.fm/nordlayer

Connect with the hosts

Michael: @[email protected] / @mkennedy.codes (bsky)

Brian: @[email protected] / @brianokken.bsky.social

Show: @[email protected] / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky)

Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 10am PT. Older video versions available there too.

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 our friends of the show list, we'll never share it.

Michael #1: pirel: Python release cycle in your terminal

pirel check shows release information about your active Python interpreter.

If the active version is end-of-life, the program exits with code 1. If no active Python interpreter is found, the program exits with code 2.

pirel list lists all Python releases in a table. Your active Python interpreter is highlighted.

A picture is worth many words

Brian #2: FastAPI Cloud

Sebastián Ramírez, creator of FastAPI, announced today the formation of a new Company, FastAPI Cloud.

Here’s the announcement blog post: FastAPI Cloud - By The Same Team Behind FastAPI

There’s a wait list to try it out.

Promises to turns deployment into fastapi login; fastapi deploy

Side note: announcement includes quote from Daft Punk: Build Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

I just included this in a talk I’m gave last week (and will again next week), where I modify this to “Build Easier, Better, Faster, Stronger”

Sebastian and I are both fans of the rocket emoji.

BTW, we first covered FastAPI on episode 123 in 2019

Brian #3: Python's new t-strings

Dave Peck, one of the authors of PEP 750, which will go into Python 3.14

We covered t-strings in ep 428

In article

t-strings security benefits over f-strings

How to work with t-strings

A Pig Latin example

Also, I think I have always done this wrong

Is it the first consonant to the end? or the first consonant cluster?

So… Brian → Rianbay? or Ianbray?

BTW, this is an example of nerdgassing

What’s next once t-strings ship?

On thing that’s next (in Python 3.15, maybe, is using t-strings in shlex and subprocess)

PEP 787 – Safer subprocess usage using t-strings deferred to 3.15

Michael #4: zev

A simple CLI tool to help you remember terminal commands.

Examples:

# Find running processes

zev 'show all running python processes'

# File operations

zev 'find all .py files modified in the last 24 hours'

# System information

zev 'show disk usage for current directory'

# Network commands

zev 'check if google.com is reachable'

# Git operations

zev 'show uncommitted changes in git'

Again, picture worth many words:

Extras

Brian:

Holy Grail turns 50

nerdgassing

Michael:

Transcripts are a bit better now.

Zen is better now

Joke: Can my friend come in?

...more

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May 05, 2025

#431 Nerd Gas

29 minutes

Topics covered in this episode:

pirel: Python release cycle in your terminal

FastAPI Cloud

Python's new t-strings

Extras

Joke

Watch on YouTube

About the show

Sponsored by NordLayer: pythonbytes.fm/nordlayer

Connect with the hosts

Michael: @[email protected] / @mkennedy.codes (bsky)

Brian: @[email protected] / @brianokken.bsky.social

Show: @[email protected] / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky)

Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 10am PT. Older video versions available there too.

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 our friends of the show list, we'll never share it.

Michael #1: pirel: Python release cycle in your terminal

pirel check shows release information about your active Python interpreter.

If the active version is end-of-life, the program exits with code 1. If no active Python interpreter is found, the program exits with code 2.

pirel list lists all Python releases in a table. Your active Python interpreter is highlighted.

A picture is worth many words

Brian #2: FastAPI Cloud

Sebastián Ramírez, creator of FastAPI, announced today the formation of a new Company, FastAPI Cloud.

Here’s the announcement blog post: FastAPI Cloud - By The Same Team Behind FastAPI

There’s a wait list to try it out.

Promises to turns deployment into fastapi login; fastapi deploy

Side note: announcement includes quote from Daft Punk: Build Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

I just included this in a talk I’m gave last week (and will again next week), where I modify this to “Build Easier, Better, Faster, Stronger”

Sebastian and I are both fans of the rocket emoji.

BTW, we first covered FastAPI on episode 123 in 2019

Brian #3: Python's new t-strings

Dave Peck, one of the authors of PEP 750, which will go into Python 3.14

We covered t-strings in ep 428

In article

t-strings security benefits over f-strings

How to work with t-strings

A Pig Latin example

Also, I think I have always done this wrong

Is it the first consonant to the end? or the first consonant cluster?

So… Brian → Rianbay? or Ianbray?

BTW, this is an example of nerdgassing

What’s next once t-strings ship?

On thing that’s next (in Python 3.15, maybe, is using t-strings in shlex and subprocess)

PEP 787 – Safer subprocess usage using t-strings deferred to 3.15

Michael #4: zev

A simple CLI tool to help you remember terminal commands.

Examples:

# Find running processes

zev 'show all running python processes'

# File operations

zev 'find all .py files modified in the last 24 hours'

# System information

zev 'show disk usage for current directory'

# Network commands

zev 'check if google.com is reachable'

# Git operations

zev 'show uncommitted changes in git'

Again, picture worth many words:

Extras

Brian:

Holy Grail turns 50

nerdgassing

Michael:

Transcripts are a bit better now.

Zen is better now

Joke: Can my friend come in?

...more

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