#373 Changing Directories

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Topics covered in this episode:

• zoxide
• Smart CLIs with Typer
• Python recommended officially by the US Government
• Textual tutorials at Mouse vs Python
• Extras
• Joke

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Michael #1: zoxide

• zoxide is a smarter cd command, inspired by z and autojump.
• It remembers which directories you use most frequently, so you can "jump" to them in just a few keystrokes.
• zoxide works on all major shells and platforms.

Brian #2: Smart CLIs with Typer

• Rahul Pai
• Lots of TILs here, even though I’ve been using Typer for years.
• Examples of
  • Auto-detection of arguments and types based on type hints
  • Help text is a smidge clunkier
  • Prompting for missing arguments
  • Defaulting to an enviromental variable for missing args
  • Print help if no args given
  • Explicit app and subcommands with a comparison to argparse
  • Reusable commands with result_callback
• Several topics covered in comparison with argparse
• See also Testing argparse Applications

Michael #3: Python recommended officially by the US Government

• The US government explicitly recommends memory safe languages.
• Python is one of them
• The comparison to big tech by Samuel is interesting

Brian #4: Textual tutorials at Mouse vs Python

• Mike Driscoll
• Most recently Creating a Modal Dialog For Your TUIs in Textual
• Textualize already has some pretty great documentation at textual.textualize.io
• But it’s cool to see some different tutorials on it.

Extras

Brian:

• Is UV the FUTURE of Python PACKAGING? 🐍📦 - Hynek
  • Nice context on how uv fits into all of the existing packaging challenges and some hope for the future.
• venmo feed is public by default

Michael:

• ngrok Python SDK
• Djangonauts on Talk Python
• Maybe just a new case and battery for your phone?

Joke: Ship it!