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konsti @konstin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

do you like uv and want to support our ecosystem and standards work? william is a pypi developer, pypa member, security expert, author of zizmor, PEP writer, uv maintainer, and he's our candidate for the python packaging council! discuss.python.org/t/ppc-nomina...

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PPC nomination AMA for William Woodruff

Hey folks, I’ll also open one of these AMAs. You can read my nomination/platform statement here: Nominee for 2026 Python Packaging Council Election | Python.org I’m happy to answer any questions any...

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konsti @konstin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

speed up python startup by 25% (2ms to 17ms faster) by deleting 2 files github.com/astral-sh/uv...

Horizontal box plot comparing 1,000 runs of `python -c print("Hello World")`. Median wall time falls from 11.6 ms before to 8.5 ms after, about 27% faster. Most measurements fall between 11.4–11.8 ms before and 8.4–8.6 ms after, with a small number of slower outliers.

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konsti @konstin.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I've started compiling python ecosystem statistics about metadata and tool popularity 🧵 All figures, captions and dataset descriptions are on blog.schuetze.link/python-ecosy...

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Ashwin Varma @ashwinvarma97.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Here are a couple of examples. Lung cancer survival rates for EGFR+ mutated Lung cancer.

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Emma @emmatyping.dev · 16/04/2026

PEP 772, creating an official Python packaging council, has been approved! 🎉 I'm so excited for the council and the work it will do. Many thanks to @pumpichank.bsky.social, @eximious.bsky.social, and @pradyunsg.me for your hard work in making this happen! discuss.python.org/t/pep-772-pa...

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PEP 772: Packaging Council governance process (Round 3)

The Python Steering Council is happy to accept PEP 772, establishing a Python Packaging Council with broad delegated authority over packaging standards, tools, and implementations. This is the final ...

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Aria Desires @gankra.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

the cuda support in conda-forge have a rounding error? surely because of me. all your wheels turned back into eggs? my bad. numpy built with cursed gcc flags that break unrelated libraries? no ok that one's your fault.

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Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 26/11/2024

“Python just has a metadata problem. Python's metadata system is too complex and suffers from what I would call ‘lack of constraints’.” lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/11/26/p...

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Constraints are Good: Python's Metadata Dilemma

Some of the issues of why Python packaging is unnecessarily hard.

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