#388 Don't delete all the repos

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Topics covered in this episode:

• PSF Elections coming up
• Cloud engineer gets 2 years for wiping ex-employer’s code repos
• Python: Import by string with pkgutil.resolve_name()
• DuckDB goes 1.0
• Extras
• Joke

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Brian #1: PSF Elections coming up

• This is elections for the PSF Board and for 3 bylaw changes.
• To vote in the PSF election, you need to be a Supporting, Managing, Contributing, or Fellow member of the PSF, …
• And affirm your voting status by June 25.
• See Affirm your PSF Membership Voting Status for more details.
• Timeline
  • Board Nominations open: Tuesday, June 11th, 2:00 pm UTC
  • Board Nominations close: Tuesday, June 25th, 2:00 pm UTC
  • Voter application cut-off date: Tuesday, June 25th, 2:00 pm UTC
    • same date is also for voter affirmation.
  • Announce candidates: Thursday, June 27th
  • Voting start date: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2:00 pm UTC
  • Voting end date: Tuesday, July 16th, 2:00 pm UTC
• See also Thinking about running for the Python Software Foundation Board of Directors? Let’s talk!
  • There’s still one upcoming office hours session on June 18th, 12 PM UTC
• And For your consideration: Proposed bylaws changes to improve our membership experience
  • 3 proposed bylaws changes

Michael #2: Cloud engineer gets 2 years for wiping ex-employer’s code repos

• Miklos Daniel Brody, a cloud engineer, was sentenced to two years in prison and a restitution of $529,000 for wiping the code repositories of his former employer in retaliation for being fired.
• The court documents state that Brody's employment was terminated after he violated company policies by connecting a USB drive.

Brian #3: Python: Import by string with pkgutil.resolve_name()

• Adam Johnson
• You can use pkgutil.resolve_name("[HTML_REMOVED]:[HTML_REMOVED]")to import classes, functions or modules using strings.
• You can also use importlib.import_module("[HTML_REMOVED]")
• Both of these techniques are so that you have an object imported, but the end thing isn’t imported into the local namespace.

Michael #4: DuckDB goes 1.0

• via Alex Monahan
• The cloud hosted product @MotherDuck also opened up General Availability
• Codenamed "Snow Duck"
• The core theme of the 1.0.0 release is stability.

Extras

Brian:

• Sending us topics. Please send before Tuesday. But any time is welcome.
• NumPy 2.0
• htmx 2.0.0

Michael:

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• Coming soon at Talk Python: Shiny for Python

Joke: .gitignore thoughts won't let me sleep