Every October, I do a maintenance pass on all my projects. At a minimum, that involves dropping support for whatever Python version is no longer supported and adding support for the most recently released Python version. While doing that, I go through the issue tracker, answer questions, and fix whatever I can fix. Then I release new versions. Then I think about which projects I should deprecate and figure out a deprecation plan for them.
Here's the task. I want to create a class to represent a track and field event held in a competition. This entry allows you to enter the raw results as reported by the officials-the athlete's bib number and the time they clocked in a race. It then computes the event's full results. There's more we could add to make this class more complete. But I won't. You can create a list of athletes that are competing in the track and field meeting:
If you spend long enough in the programming world, you'll come across the term singleton at some point. And if you hadn't seen this term yet, well, now you have! In Python, you don't need singleton classes. Almost never. But creating one is a great exercise in understanding how Python creates objects. And discussing alternatives to a singleton class helps you explore other aspects of Python.
Linting is essential to writing clean and readable code that you can share with others. A linter, like Ruff, is a tool that analyzes your code and looks for errors, stylistic issues, and suspicious constructs. Linting allows you to address issues and improve your code quality before you commit your code and share it with others. Ruff is a modern linter that's extremely fast and has a simple interface, making it straightforward to use.
The termncolor package and its malicious dependency colorinal highlight the increasing sophistication of attacks targeting software repositories, enabling attackers to achieve remote code execution and system persistence.
When tackling object-oriented programming problems, one must choose between inheritance and composition, as each has distinct trade-offs. Composition often leads to more flexible and reusable code.