#449 Suggestive Trove Classifiers

Topics covered in this episode:

• * Mozilla’s Lifeline is Safe After Judge’s Google Antitrust Ruling*
• * troml - suggests or fills in trove classifiers for your projects*
• * pqrs: Command line tool for inspecting Parquet files*
• * Testing for Python 3.14*
• Extras
• Joke

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Michael #1: Mozilla’s Lifeline is Safe After Judge’s Google Antitrust Ruling

• A judge lets Google keep paying Mozilla to make Google the default search engine but only if those deals aren’t exclusive.
• More than 85% of Mozilla’s revenue comes from Google search payments.
• The ruling forbids Google from making exclusive contracts for Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, or Gemini, and forces data sharing and search syndication so rivals get a fighting chance.

Brian #2: troml - suggests or fills in trove classifiers for your projects

• Adam Hill
• This is super cool and so welcome.
• Trove Classifiers are things like <code>Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14</code> that allow for some fun stuff to show up in PyPI, like the versions you support, etc.
• Note that just saying you require 3.9+ doesn’t tell the user that you’ve actually tested stuff on 3.14. I like to keep Trove Classifiers around for this reason.
• Also, License classifier is deprecated, and if you include it, it shows up in two places, in Meta, and in the Classifiers section. Probably good to only have one place. So I’m going to be removing it from classifiers for my projects.
• One problem, classifier text has to be an exact match to something in the classifier list, so we usually recommend copy/pasting from that list.
• But no longer! Just use troml!
• It just fills it in for you (if you run troml suggest --fix). How totally awesome is that!
• I tried it on pytest-check, and it was mostly right. It suggested me adding 3.15, which I haven’t tested yet, so I’m not ready to add that just yet. :)
• BTW, I talked with Brett Cannon about classifiers back in ‘23 if you want some more in depth info on trove classifiers.

Michael #3: