Python Bytes

Watch the live stream: Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by Datadog: pythonbytes.fm/datadog Michael #1: Physics Breakthrough as AI Successfully Controls Plasma in Nuclear Fusion Experiment Interesting break through using AI Is Python at the center of it? With enough digging, the anwswer is yes, and we love it! Brian #2: PEP 680 -- tomllib: Support for Parsing TOML in the Standard Library Accepted for Python 3.11 This PEP proposes basing the standard library support for reading TOML on the third-party library tomli Michael #3: Thread local threading.local: A class that represents thread-local data. Thread-local data are data whose values are thread specific. Just create an instance of local (or a subclass) and store attributes on it You can even subclass it. Brian #4: What is a generator function? Trey Hunner Super handy, and way easier than you think, if you’ve never written your own. Really, it’s just a function that uses yield instead of return and supplies one element at a time