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weblog
- Querying a Relational Database with a Graph Query Language
- New blog post: semantic messages
- Git Repositories as RDF Graphs
- Fused Edges
- Three Independent Dimensions of Work on Engineered Artifacts
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A free demo for Kandria (written in CL) is now on Steam
I started using Common Lisp at work as a way to develop features more quickly in a Java Sprint Boot application.
- Scraping Webpages with SPARQL
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Datasets for education
For the last several months I have been using SPARQL Anything to triplify non-RDF and I've been blogging about it here. The post about Google Sheets might be a helpful intro. With SPARQL Anything you can triplify tabular and non-tabular data.
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Array programming language(s) for 3d-graphics?
I blogged about CEPL a while back (for vim users). You can use the approach in my blog post even if you don't have hardware acceleration.
pip
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How to Create Virtual Environments in Python
Whenever you are working on a Python project that has external dependencies installed with pip, it is strongly recommended to first create a virtual environment.
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Boring Python: dependency management (2022)
Unfortunately that feature is easy to break: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/9644
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pip VS instld - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 9 Dec 2023
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sudo pip install should be illegal
I think I did my part https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/6409
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Can't seem to install Python YAML support
$ sudo pip install y$ sudo pip install yaml WARNING: pip is being invoked by an old script wrapper. This will fail in a future version of pip. Please see https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5599 for advice on fixing the underlying issue. To avoid this problem you can invoke Python with '-m pip' instead of running pip directly. ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement yaml (from versions: none) ERROR: No matching distribution found for yaml
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Bun v0.6.0 – Bun's new JavaScript bundler and minifier
What are you implying will happen?
Using the build-in tools, you can save the exact versions of dependencies (i.e. a lock file) using "pip freeze >dependencies.txt". This should give you the exact same set of packages in two years' time.
If you want to be even more sure, you can also store hashes in the lock file. This has to be generated by a separate tools at the moment [1][2] but can be consumed by the built-in tools [3], so "pip install -r requirements.txt" is still all you need in two years' time.
[1] https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/4732
[2] https://pip-tools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#using-hashes
[3] https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/topics/secure-installs/#hash-c...
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My Goldilocks Python Setup: pyenv, pipx, and pip-tools
Here’s the issue, https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/11664. I think the idea would be to have some file/json description of environment that could be passed to pip to allow it to fully cross compile. They are open to supporting it just needs contributor to be found to implement it and go through review/discussion.
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Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google They Are Not Willing to Fix
To be fair the only alternative is fixing Python, and even then you still would have to wait a good 5 years at least for all the old Python versions to dwindle.
It doesn't look like the fixing effort is progressing very quickly: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8606
To their credit, at least they didn't close it "works as intended" which I imagine a lot of projects would.
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Pip 23.1 Released - Massive improvement to backtracking
Another good benchmark to trying to resolve apache-airflow[all]==1.10.13 using the state of PyPi on 2020-12-02, I give instructions here on how to reproduce that workflow: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/11836. Including a benchmark how how many extra packages your resolver should visit.
- will upgrading pip break things?
What are some alternatives?
alloy - A new user interface protocol and toolkit implementation
mamba - The Fast Cross-Platform Package Manager
jak-project - Reviving the language that brought us the Jak & Daxter Series
Poetry - Python packaging and dependency management made easy
ergolib - A library designed to make programming in Common Lisp easier
PDM - A modern Python package and dependency manager supporting the latest PEP standards
ok - An open-source interpreter for the K5 programming language.
conda - A system-level, binary package and environment manager running on all major operating systems and platforms.
netfarm
pip-tools - A set of tools to keep your pinned Python dependencies fresh.
screenshotbot-oss - A Screenshot Testing service to tie with your existing Android, iOS and Web screenshot tests
wheel - Adoption analysis of Python Wheels: https://pythonwheels.com/