#456 You're so wrong

Topics covered in this episode:

• The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program
• A Binary Serializer for Pydantic Models
• T-strings: Python's Fifth String Formatting Technique?
• Cronboard
• Extras
• Joke

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Brian #1: The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program

• Related post from Simon Willison
• ARS Technica: Python plan to boost software security foiled by Trump admin’s anti-DEI rules
• The Register: Python Foundation goes ride or DEI, rejects government grant with strings attached
• In Jan 2025, the PSF submitted a proposal for a US NSF grant under the Safety, Security, and Privacy of Open Source Ecosystems program. After months of work by the PSF, the proposal was recommended for funding.
• If the PSF accepted it, however, they would need to agree to the some terms and conditions, including, affirming that the PSF doesn't support diversity. The restriction wouldn't just be around the security work, but around all activity of the PSF as a whole. And further, that any deemed violation would give the NSF the right to ask for the money back.
• That just won't work, as the PSF would have already spent the money.
• The PSF mission statement includes "The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers." The money would have obviously been very valuable, but the restrictions are just too unacceptable.
• The PSF withdrew the proposal. This couldn't have been an easy decision, that was a lot of money, but I think the PSF did the right thing.

Michael #2: A Binary Serializer for Pydantic Models

• 7× Smaller Than JSON
• A compact binary serializer for Pydantic models that dramatically reduces RAM usage compared to JSON.
• The library is desig