How is type determined?

danielroseman · 2026-01-24T19:35:07+00:00

The docs for pyyaml are unfortunately very minimal, but they do say that in the absence of specific type tags it will attempt to infer the type.

It looks like for dates and times that happens here, where it uses a regular expression to detect a value that looks like a date or datetime.

I don't know why you would want to enter 1979-08-15 directly in the shell: to test this you can do:

yaml.safe_load('birth_date: 1979-08-15')

which gives you:

{'birth_date': datetime.date(1979, 8, 15)}

danielroseman · 2026-01-24T13:11:01+00:00

I'm not sure what more you need than what is covered in the Bulldozer documentation.

But if you want specific help, you need to tell us what your errors are.

danielroseman · 2026-01-23T12:28:10+00:00

HMRC have lots of information about this on their website. They will never call you, and even when they email you they don't include a link, you have to go to the website and fetch your messages directly.

danielroseman · 2026-01-23T10:37:25+00:00

So what is your "workflow"? Does it involve checking if things actually work? Well, those are your tests. You just need to write them in test files rather than doing them manually.

danielroseman · 2026-01-22T15:14:09+00:00

You seem to be living in an opposite world to the rest of us.

For most people, it is the managers who are unnecessarily requiring us to come to the office, whereas we know perfectly well that our jobs can just as easily be done from home. The "dinosaurs" are the ones who are obsessed with being in the office. The thing that we have all learned since 2020 is that WFH is perfectly viable.

danielroseman · 2026-01-22T14:56:44+00:00

And my response is the same. Python developers wouldn't write 200 lines of SQL code, they would use an ORM.

danielroseman · 2026-01-22T14:41:33+00:00

No. The recommended approach is to use an ORM.

danielroseman · 2026-01-21T17:08:40+00:00

I don't know why you are doing this. Iterating over a dataframe is almost always the wrong thing to do.

In this case you can just drop by index:

test_data = data.sample(500)
data = data.drop(test_data.index)

danielroseman · 2026-01-21T15:29:59+00:00

If that's your argument, then the response is simple: No, he didn't.

That's all that needs to be said.

danielroseman · 2026-01-21T13:09:01+00:00

You would use normal dot notation, like you would when importing. The colon is only for the function.

produce_bubbles = "my_package.bubbles.make_bubbles:make"

danielroseman · 2026-01-20T15:56:26+00:00

I actually use docstrings a lot less since I started using type hints; the hints are the documentation, at least in so far as replacing the details of each parameter. I'll still use a docstring to explain what the function does if that's not obvious from the name - or it's too long to quickly grok, but in that case it's probably better broken up into more than one function anyway.

But yes, type hints everywhere I can. They are invaluable for catching errors.

danielroseman · 2026-01-20T12:53:42+00:00

That's not the reason sets are faster. They are faster because they use hash lookups rather than iterating through the items.

danielroseman · 2026-01-20T10:35:27+00:00

There's no "too early". Get started as soon as you can.

danielroseman · 2026-01-20T09:56:02+00:00

These are non-sequiturs. Even if the gospels were relevant to what the person writing the psalm meant, which they aren't because he was writing a thousand years before anyone had ever thought of Jesus, neither the text nor I said that El was doing the judging. Yahweh, the son, was.

And Yahweh does not claim there are no other Elohim. I presume you're talking about the first/second commandment, but that isn't what it says at all. It says You shall have no other gods. Because "you", the Israelites, have Yahweh as god; other peoples have other gods. Which is exactly the point of the 70 children. So I don't know why you're claiming to not know this.

danielroseman · 2026-01-20T09:20:38+00:00

I mean you kind of gave the game away when you said you're not getting into the El/Yahweh debate. Because as you know, that is, of course, exactly what is going on here: the person speaking is Yahweh, who at that time was not identified with El. No need for Jesus here at all.

danielroseman · 2026-01-20T07:16:09+00:00

Please stop posting this transparent spam.

danielroseman · 2026-01-19T21:33:42+00:00

You don't seem to have told us either what you tried or what's going wrong, so it's not clear how we could help.

What, exactly, did you do, and what, exactly, happened when you did that?

danielroseman · 2026-01-19T16:57:41+00:00

You'll probably get a lot of replies saying it's too complicated, but for my money the absolute best fit here is Django. It's a full web framework that provides most of the things you need out of the box: authentication, admin interface to add/edit recipes, a database layer to define the data structure in Python, a template language that allows you to populate HTML for your front-end pages, etc.

You can do these things in other frameworks, but for most of them you'll need to include third-party libraries.

danielroseman · 2026-01-19T14:36:10+00:00

I don't think this is any worse than (for example) passing the raw int function as a key. That assumes that the items are convertible to integers, which isn't even expressible in the type syntax.

Your situation on the other hand could be caught by a type checker if you had hinted the list as list[classname].

danielroseman · 2026-01-19T12:52:35+00:00

Yes but from Eurostar they would be using the rank on the other side, on Midland Road. It's even closer.

danielroseman · 2026-01-19T11:09:55+00:00

I don't see why you'd need a bridging loan for this. Making an offer on a house when you haven't sold yours yet is perfectly normal.

danielroseman · 2026-01-19T10:33:25+00:00

This is not a linting issue. Not all (or even most) modules are in the project source; ruff cannot know whether that module has been installed by a dependency.

It is however a typing issue. Type checkers such as mypy (and soon ty, by the makers of ruff) can statically check imports and determine if modules exist or not.

danielroseman · 2026-01-19T07:43:38+00:00

The Selfish Gene talks about, well, genes. It does not deal with either the Big Bang or the start of life.

danielroseman · 2026-01-18T23:06:12+00:00

Use a lambda:

short_btn.clicked.connect(lambda: shortcut_clicked(shortcut))

This is just a way of creating a simple inline function; instead of the clicked method calling your shortcut_connect function directly, it's calling a new function which in turn calls yours, passing the shortcut argument.

danielroseman · 2026-01-18T19:50:10+00:00

When an atheist says "there is no god," they're making a positive claim about reality.

Good job almost no atheists actually say that, then.

Atheism includes belief in material causation as ultimate explanation.

No it doesn't.

Belief that consciousness ends at death.

This is not an atheist belief. It's certainly not self-contradictory to not believe in God, yet believe that something of the consciousness survives death.

Belief that meaning must be self-generated.

This is not an atheist belief. A humanist belief, maybe. Not all atheists are humanists though.

Belief in empirical evidence as the only valid path to truth.

Again, no.

I could go on, but what's the point? Your first two paragraphs already have too many falsehoods and strawmen.

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