matthewsnyder‭

Background Many Python programs now recommend installing with pipx, and there is a sense that you shouldn't install with pip anymore, you should use tools like pipx. Main Question However, what ...

3 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by tripleee‭

How do I clone the repository with only part of the history? For example, let's say I want to download only the last 5 commits out of thousands.

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by hkotsubo‭

Between-lines relations are not easy to look for with grep, which is a line filter. You could use a regex that spans lines, but I find this annoying because of all the flags you have to set. Grep ...

posted 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭

I did git fetch to quickly get latest commits. I did this instead of git pull so I could deal with merge conflicts offline. But my repository is still stuck on the old commit, and now git pull fail...

2 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by hkotsubo‭

Hi and welcome to the site. :) I think the idea of a canonical like the one you linked is great. A lot of newbies have too little understanding of their topic to identify common patterns. So they ...

posted 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭

These questions are very helpful to the person asking, and great for driving activity. I think it is good to allow these questions to be asked and to answer them. At the same time, they are not go...

posted 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭

Why does git merge take the source branch rather than the destination branch as a parameter? The most common merge case by far for me is "Okay, this branch looks good, let's merge it into branch X...

4 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by hkotsubo‭

Is software system design on topic for the software development site? For what I mean by system design, consider the "system design interview" commonly held these days when recruiting software eng...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Lundin‭

I don't actually know the answer to this, but I'll post a provisional one while we wait for someone wiser than me to chime in. I think this is a small subset of the real answer. Don't forget the...

posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

When I run pip install foo, pip looks for foo in PyPi. I want it to look for it first in a private repo, let's say pypi.bar.com. Only if foo cannot be found in pypi.bar.com, should pip then look f...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by tripleee‭

I want my CLI Python program to schedule a task, and then exit. After some times has passed (say 10 minutes) the task should execute. The task can be a Python method or a shell command, whatever i...

3 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by H_H‭

The assumption of 1k attempts/s is wishful thinking, as is the idea that a hacker will go on mail.google.com and try to guess your login (they would get a captcha after like 5 failed attempts). Pa...

posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

A lot of people who maintain FOSS projects would like to get more contributions. What can the maintainer do to ensure that potential contributors are converted into actual contributors? There are...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 12mo ago by Michael‭

Files with .py extension are scripts. You run them with python myscript.py. Python is an imperative language, so executing a file will run each line one by one, starting from the top, and exit whe...

posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by Michael‭

Recently, Python updated from 3.11 to 3.12 and now all my libraries are gone. Actually they're in the old 3.11 site-packages, but now that python points to 3.12 those are not active. Every time I r...

3 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭