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| 17 Feb 2023 |
 wtbarnes | This is only loosely related to plasmapy, but I have a more general question regarding the codespell configuration. When running codespell as part of pre-commit, how do you avoid codespell complaining about the ignored words in the pyproject.toml file? I have a project where I've configured codespell in my setup.cfg, but precommit fails because it finds the ignored words in ignored word list...which seems incredibly circular to me! | 20:23:43 |
| 22 Feb 2023 |
 Nick Murphy | wtbarnes: that does sound strange! In the codespell config, there's a skip variable you can set which can be used to skip certain files. It might also be necessary or possible to specify which files should be skipped by the hook in .pre-commit-config.yaml. There's also a chance that there would be an error in the codespell configuration in pyproject.toml. | 00:09:03 |
| Nick Murphy | Also, the last two Talk Python To Me podcasts have been pretty great!
The first one is on the Fusion Ignition Breakthrough and Python. The first half of the show covers the science, and the second half covers the Python aspects. PlasmaPy gets mentioned! (start about 49 minutes in)
The second one is on Clean Code in Python...one of my favorite topics! This episode expands on an article on tips for clean code in Python.
| 00:15:13 |
| wtbarnes | In reply to @namurphy:matrix.org
wtbarnes: that does sound strange! In the codespell config, there's a skip variable you can set which can be used to skip certain files. It might also be necessary or possible to specify which files should be skipped by the hook in .pre-commit-config.yaml. There's also a chance that there would be an error in the codespell configuration in pyproject.toml. It’s ok. I solved it. I had not put commas after each word in the skip-words-list. | 01:15:18 |
| wtbarnes | In reply to @namurphy:matrix.org
Also, the last two Talk Python To Me podcasts have been pretty great!
The first one is on the Fusion Ignition Breakthrough and Python. The first half of the show covers the science, and the second half covers the Python aspects. PlasmaPy gets mentioned! (start about 49 minutes in)
The second one is on Clean Code in Python...one of my favorite topics! This episode expands on an article on tips for clean code in Python.
I just recently listened to this one and meant to post in this channel about it. Very exciting! | 01:15:59 |
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| 10 Mar 2023 |
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| 23 Mar 2023 |
| Nick Murphy | PlasmaPy can't yet run on Python 3.11 because we depend on Numba, and Numba hasn't made a release yet that's compatible with Python 3.11. It usually takes them a few months due to the difficulty of using it, but it's taking them a lot longer this time. But, from this issue it sounds like they're expecting to do a Numba pre-release in the next week or two, and hopefully a full release not too long after. So, we should be able to use PlasmaPy on Python 3.11 soon! | 16:22:26 |
| wtbarnes | I think I’ve asked this before (maybe here or elsewhere) but would plasmapy consider implementing optional dependencies to alleviate levying a numba dependency against libraries that depend on parts of plasmapy that don’t use numba? | 20:33:42 |
| Nick Murphy | At the moment we use Numba within some of our formulary functions like plasma_frequency and thermal_speed, since we needed fast versions for some applications (charged particle radiography or thomson fitting, iirc), so it's a little hard to call it optional. We've been thinking about using Cython instead of Numba to get the best of both worlds. | 21:05:52 |
| Cadair | How complex are the functions? | 21:27:35 |
| Cadair | Cython is probably the best choice | 21:27:50 |
| Cadair | Although you could get froody and use rust :p | 21:28:01 |
| Nick Murphy | They're pretty straightforward functions...and you're not the first to suggest we use Rust! | 21:28:36 |
| Nick Murphy | But yeah, we should turn the Cython up to 11 | 21:28:54 |
| Cadair | The tooling is there, but I don't think it's worth it for a couple of easy ish numerical functions. | 21:29:53 |
| Cadair | Cython is just so rock solid | 21:30:03 |
| wtbarnes | In reply to @namurphy:matrix.org
At the moment we use Numba within some of our formulary functions like plasma_frequency and thermal_speed, since we needed fast versions for some applications (charged particle radiography or thomson fitting, iirc), so it's a little hard to call it optional. We've been thinking about using Cython instead of Numba to get the best of both worlds. Ah fair enough. Obviously I’m very biased in my specific request. Haha. | 21:41:01 |
| 6 Apr 2023 |
| Nick Murphy | We will be having shorter PlasmaPy office hours today, most likely from 3:30–4 pm EDT. (We usually have virtual office hours from 3-4 pm EDT on Thursdays, so today will be a half an hour late.) | 14:29:41 |
| 7 Apr 2023 |
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| 17 Apr 2023 |
| Nick Murphy | We won't be having PlasmaPy office hours this week since I'll be heading to PyCon US! If anyone is heading there I'd be happy to meet up! Videos from PyCon will be put online for anyone to watch afterwards, in case anything in the schedule looks particularly awesome. | 19:03:42 |
| 2 May 2023 |
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| 10 May 2023 |
| Nick Murphy | It's looking like we'll be releasing PlasmaPy v2023.5.0 during the week of May 22! | 19:50:43 |
| Nick Murphy | Also we won't be having any PlasmaPy meetings or office hours next week (May 15–19). | 19:52:00 |
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