Back in December, when I released rush, I struggled to figure out the appropriate way to signal that the library was shipping with type annotations built-in. I've also been working on adding type annotation stub files to github3.py as a result, I've had to look around quite a bit …

tl;dr dispatch_hook now sends the keyword arguments that were originally sent with the request. Hook authors should modify their hooks to accept them and resend them.

This morning Kenneth published (on PyPI and Crate) requests 1.2.0 which included a lot of very important changes. One, which will …

So a friend of mine is learning python and was fooling around in the interactive console. They accidentally ran:

'str' > 19
# But they meant to run
'str' > '19'

Can you guess what that evaluated to? Conventional thought would suggest a TypeError, but in fact that evaluates to True. Odd right …

I previously mentioned my work on github3.py and how I was having trouble creating downloads on GitHub because they use Amazon's S3 service for the uploaded files. What this means is that first you have to "create" the download on GitHub then you have to upload the actual file …

While testing github3.py by hand, I found myself wanted to delete objects that I created as a test from an array after deleting them on GitHub. To do that, I have to do:

gists[index].delete()
del gists[index]

So my initial instinct was to modify the __del__ method …

After finishing finals, I started working on my project to wrap the Github API. Recently, I came across the area of the API dealing with creating a download on a repository. The one thing that has made this project so enjoyable has been requests. Upon reaching this section, I noticed …