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Chris Withers
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I guess that’s what paying for a specific seat on @British_Airways gets you! (You know: that thing that every other airline gives you for free…) Broken storage: hope there’s no turbulence! #neverflyba
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Chris Withers
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His funeral is at 3:15pm, UK time, today, if you'd like to attend virtually, the URL is below:. Please DM me or email me at chris@python.org if you'd like the entry code.
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Chris Withers
5 months
There's a full thread in memory of Michael here:.
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Chris Withers
5 months
mock 5.2.0 released - A backport of #python's unittest.mock, includes all the bugfixes and features from CPython main branch. This release is in memorial of Mock's original author, Michael Foord, who passed away in January 2025.
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10 months
sybil 7.0.0 released! It's a #python tool for testing examples in documentation and source code:
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Chris Withers
1 year
chide 3.0.0, a tiny #python library for making sample object, released: better @sqlalchemy support with text formats, partial sample creation and more -
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Chris Withers
1 year
Rare pleasures in life: cancelling a @virginmedia broadband contract!. - Goodbye mediocre offshore call centres.- Goodbye arbitrary in-contract price rises.- Goodbye magic discounts only available to the retentions team!.
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1 year
testfixtures 8.0.0 released! It's a collection of #python testing helpers and mock objects - this release drops Python 3.6, adds 3.12, has improvements for TempDirectory and bugfixes for Replacer - full change log:
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Chris Withers
1 year
Well, I guess that’s what you get for giving @British_Airways a second chance! 🤡
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Chris Withers
2 years
Big thanks to @AdamDangoor for all the help on the typing front!.
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Chris Withers
2 years
@hynek - you should give this a go, simple hidden directives in html-style Markdown comments now supported, along with explicit skip reasons even when the skip is unconditional :-).
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Chris Withers
2 years
sybil 6 released! It's a #python tool for testing examples in documentation and source code: this one is fully type checked and now supports ReST, MyST and Markdown -
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Chris Withers
2 years
Well, that’s my bullshit buzzword bingo sheet complete for the year….
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Chris Withers
2 years
sybil 5.0.3 released! It's a #python tool for testing examples in documentation and source code: this one bugfixes traceback trimming on the latest @pytestdotorg releases -
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Chris Withers
2 years
mock 5.1.0 released! A backport of #python's unittest.mock, includes all the bugfixes and features from CPython main branch as of this morning! The big one in this release is the new ThreadingMock by @mariocj89 and @tirkarthi .
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Chris Withers
2 years
First time flying @AmericanAir today, at this rate, hopefully the last too… delays, crappy lounge, unhelpful staff 👍👌.
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Chris Withers
2 years
RT @Feargal_Sharkey: So @Ofwat & WCs have confirmed, we've paid WCs all the money ever needed to fix the sewage scandal. Paid for a service….
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Chris Withers
2 years
RT @Estelle_Flee: @NoDisposableBBQ @sainsburys had shelves and shelves of disposable BBQ’s yesterday. They are a fire hazard. Please stop s….
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