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Tall, Snarky Canadian

Python core developer. Dev manager for the Python extension for VS Code. Tall, snarky Canadian.

  • By Brett Cannon
  • Based in Canada
  • Roughly 12 posts per year
  • First post on

Posts per year

Data for this chart is available in the table below
Posts per year
Year starting Posts
2021 6
2022 10
2023 17
2024 2

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

State of WASI support for CPython: March 2024
The biggest update since June 2023 is WASI is now a tier 2 platform for CPython! This means that the main branch of CPython should never be broken more than 24 hours for WASI and …
On , by Brett Cannon, 305 words
An experimental pip subcommand for the Python Launcher for Unix
There are a couple of things I always want to be true when I install Python packages for a project:I have a virtual environmentPip is up-to-dateFor virtual environments, you would like them to be created …
On , by Brett Cannon, 406 words
My proof-of-concept record type
Back in June, I proposed a struct syntax for Python. I shared the post on Mastodon and got some feedback. Afterwards I thought about what I heard and talked it over with some folks. I've …
On , by Brett Cannon, 438 words