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Challenged by Babs to find a single person he’s never wronged, Brighty’s search leads them to Cornwall and to best friend Russ Blackshark. Whilst Brighty and Babs re-run Russ’s stag do, Churlington gets into a spot of bother auditing the family tin mine.

Lord Christian Brighty is the talk of the Regency 'Ton' - a celebrated libertine, a heartthrob and a hero to many. But close-up, he is a spoilt, impetuous, life-ruining bastard… Or at least he was. Because his carefree life of infinite privilege has been upended by an encounter with his new chambermaid - the uneducated but forthright Babigail - who became the first person to tell him the unvarnished truth about his selfish behaviour. Overnight, his lifelong trust that everyone loved him had been replaced with a gnawing fear that Babs was right.

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Christian Brighty and Amy Greaves are award-winning comedians. Their viral sketches based on Bridgerton, Poldark and Jane Austen have catapulted them to viral stardom, securing Christian’s place as the internet’s answer to Mr Darcy and amassing 150 million views across TikTok and Instagram (@brightybuoy). Amy and Christian both have a deep love of the work Jane Austen, traditional regency romance (not smut), and historical romance set in the regency (smut).

Danny and Derek once again speak with Mark Ames, co-host of Radio War Nerd, for an update on what’s going on in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. They talk about the internal dynamics in Putin and Zelinskyy’s respective administrations, Russia’s Kursk counteroffensive, media framing around Ukrainian victories vs. those of Russia, when western governments wil…

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Premise

The 0.4.0 release of uv does everything I currently do with pip, pyenv, pipx, pip-tools, and pipdeptree. Because of that, I'm in the process of switching to uv.

This blog post covers switching from pyenv to uv.

History

• 2024-08-29: Initial writing.

• 2024-09-12: Minor updates and publishing.

Start state

I'm running Ubuntu Linux 24.04. I have pyenv installed using the the automatic installer. pyenv is located in $HOME/.pyenv/bin/.

I have the following Pythons installed with pyenv:

$ pyenv versions
  system
  3.7.17
  3.8.19
  3.9.19
* 3.10.14 (set by /home/willkg/mozilla/everett/.python-version)
  3.11.9
  3.12.3

I'm not sure why I have 3.7 still installed. I don't think I use that for anything.

My default version is 3.10.14 for some reason. I'm not sure why I haven't updated that to 3.12, yet.

In my 3.10.14, I have the following Python packages installed:

$ pip freeze
appdirs==1.4.4
argcomplete==3.1.1
attrs==22.2.0
cffi==1.15.1
click==8.1.3
colorama==0.4.6
diskcache==5.4.0
distlib==0.3.8
distro==1.8.0
filelock==3.14.0
glean-parser==6.1.1
glean-sdk==50.1.4
Jinja2==3.1.2
jsonschema==4.17.3
MarkupSafe==2.0.1
MozPhab==1.5.1
packaging==24.0
pathspec==0.11.0
pbr==6.0.0
pipx==1.5.0
platformdirs==4.2.1
pycparser==2.21
pyrsistent==0.19.3
python-hglib==2.6.2
PyYAML==6.0
sentry-sdk==1.16.0
stevedore==5.2.0
tomli==2.0.1
userpath==1.8.0
virtualenv==20.26.2
virtualenv-clone==0.5.7
virtualenvwrapper==6.1.0
yamllint==1.29.0

That probably means I installed the following in the Python 3.10.14 Python environment:

• MozPhab

• pipx

• virtualenvwrapper

Maybe I installed some other things for some reason lost in the sands of time.

Then I had a whole bunch of things installed with pipx.

I have many open source projects all of which have a .python-version file listing the Python versions the project uses.

I think that covers the start state.

Steps

First, I made a list of things I had.

• I listed all the versions of Python I have installed so I know what I need to reinstall with uv.

  $ pyenv versions
  

• I listed all the packages I have installed in my 3.10.14 environment (the default one).

  $ pip freeze
  

• I listed all the packages I installed with pipx.

  $ pipx list
  

I uninstalled all the packages I installed with pipx.

$ pipx uninstall PACKAGE

Then I uninstalled pyenv and everything it uses. I followed the pyenv uninstall instructions:

$ rm -rf $(pyenv root)

Then I removed the bits in my shell that add to the PATH and set up pyenv and virtualenvwrapper.

Then I started a new shell that didn't have all the pyenv and virtualenvwrapper stuff in it.

Then I installed uv using the uv standalone installer.

Then I ran uv --version to make sure it was installed.

Then I installed the shell autocompletion.

Note

I have a dotfiles thing and separate out bashrc changes by what changes them. You can see my home-grown thing that works for me here:

https://github.com/willkg/dotfiles

These instructions are specific to my home-grown dotfiles thing.

$ echo 'eval "$(uv generate-shell-completion bash)"' >> ~/dotfiles/bash.d/20-uv.bash

Then I started a new shell to pick up those changes.

Then I installed Python versions:

$ uv python install 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12
Searching for Python versions matching: Python 3.10
Searching for Python versions matching: Python 3.11
Searching for Python versions matching: Python 3.12
Searching for Python versions matching: Python 3.8
Searching for Python versions matching: Python 3.9
Installed 5 versions in 8.14s
 + cpython-3.8.19-linux-x86_64-gnu
 + cpython-3.9.19-linux-x86_64-gnu
 + cpython-3.10.14-linux-x86_64-gnu
 + cpython-3.11.9-linux-x86_64-gnu
 + cpython-3.12.5-linux-x86_64-gnu

When I type "python", I want it to be a Python managed by uv. Also, I like having "pythonX.Y" symlinks, so I created a uv-sync script which creates symlinks to uv-managed Python versions:

https://github.com/willkg/dotfiles/blob/main/dotfiles/bin/uv-sync

Then I installed all my tools using uv tool install.

$ uv tool install PACKAGE

For tox, I had to install the tox-uv package in the tox environment:

$ uv tool install --with tox-uv tox

Now I've got everything I do mostly working.

So what does that give me?

I installed uv and I can upgrade uv using uv self update.

Python interpreters are managed using uv python. I can create symlinks to interpreters using uv-sync script. Adding new interpreters and removing old ones is pretty straight-forward.

When I type python, it opens up a Python shell with the latest uv-managed Python version. I can type pythonX.Y and get specific shells.

I can use tools written in Python and manage them with uv tool including ones where I want to install them in an "editable" mode.

I can write scripts that require dependencies and it's a lot easier to run them now.

I can create and manage virtual environments with uv venv.

Next steps

Delete all the .python-version files I've got.

Update documentation for my projects and add a uv tool install PACKAGE option to installation instructions.

Probably discover some additional things to add to this doc.

Thanks

Thank you to the Astral crew who wrote uv.

Thank you to Rob Hudson who goaded me into posting this finally rather than sit on it another month.

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Danny and Derek speak with Jake Werner, acting director of the East Asia Program at the Quincy Institute, about his recent brief, “A Program for Progressive China Policy.” They define the current state of US policy toward China before exploring the background of US-China alignment starting in the neoliberal turn, the fundamental misconception of what’s happening in China by American policymakers, and his progressive vision for the US’s policy towards China regarding issues of the economy, military, human rights, and climate change.

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Danny and Derek speak with Jake Werner, acting director of the East Asia Program at the Quincy Institute, about his recent brief, “A Program for Progressive China Policy.” They define the current state of US policy toward China before exploring the background of US-China alignment starting in the neoliberal turn, the fundamental misconception of what’s …

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I got the following question on my post on how I handle secrets in my work notes:

Sounds like a nice approach for other secrets but how about :dbconnection for Orgmode and sql-connection-alist?

I have to admit I'd never come across the variable sql-connection-alist before. I've never really used sql-mode for more than editing SQL queries and setting up code blocks for running them was one of the first things I used yasnippet for.

I did a little reading and unfortunately it looks like sql-connection-alist can only handle string values. However, there is a variable sql-password-search-wallet-function, with the default value of sql-auth-source-search-wallet, so using auth-source is already supported for the password itself.

There seems to be a lack of good tutorials for setting up sql-mode in a secure way – all articles I found place the password in clear-text in the config – filling that gap would be a nice way to contribute to the Emacs community. I'm sure it'd prompt me to re-evaluate incorporating sql-mode in my workflow.

This is a sort of Public Service Announcement. One of the great things about Org mode is the code block where you can run code in an Org buffer and have the results inserted into the Org document. I use this all the time. It’s a particularly elegant way of practicing literate programming and writing “live” documents that automatically rewrite themselves when the data the changes.

It’s usually a seamless process but there are gotchas for some languages. Sadly, Python, a widely used language, is one of those where you have to be careful. If you don’t follow the rules correctly, you can end up with erroneous results.

Recently, on the Org Mode mailing list there was a nice discussion of the problems that Python can present. As of right now, there are only three posts in the thread so you should read them all to get a full idea of what’s going on. The TL;DR is that you (usually) have to provide an explicit return in your Python code to get the correct results into your Org buffer.

Python is the only language that I use—even occasionally—that has these problems: usually things just work. It is, therefore, worth spending a few minutes familiarizing yourself with the problems that Python and a few other languages have in the Babel environment.

As most of you know, I’m a big fan of using literate programming techniques in the context of what might be described as “devops”. The technique boils down to writing an Org file with code blocks that document how you are solving a particular problem. The key is that the code blocks are executable and are what you actually use to solve the problem. Howard Abrams has a really good introduction to the idea in a post and subsequent video.

Magnus Therning has a nice nice post that expands on the same theme. His wrinkle is that the applications he’s interacting with require login credentials. For a long time, he simply kept those credentials as plain text in his Org file but, of course, he realized that was a bad thing.

He solved the problem by putting his credentials in his .authinfo file and accessing them with the auth-source library. He wrote a couple of functions that used the auth-source library to retrieve the necessary credentials. He populated these in a properties block. This is perfect because the source code doesn’t show any secrets but those secrets are made available to the executing code.

I do something similar to retrieve secrets that I don’t want exposed in plain text. The .authinfo file and associated library is a really useful set of tools to enable access to secure applications without exposing the required credentials. Take a look at his post to see how easy it is.

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Morena did it. Their presence in the Senate has risen to 85 after two defections from the moribund PRD. In this episode Soberanía co-hosts José Luis Granados Ceja and Kurt Hackbarth ask what Morena's Supermajority means for Mexico and the deepening of the Fourth Transformation? Plus a report back from our participation in the 1st Continental Gathering of Independent Communicators held in Mexico City, as well as our on-the-ground coverage of President López Obrador’s final state of the union address. We also look at the latest on Ovidio Guzmán's whereabouts; and our Losers and Haters section looks at one foreign correspondent’s outright dishonesty.

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