<strong>Topics covered in this episode:</strong><br> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://starlette.dev/release-notes/#100rc1-february-23-2026">Starlette 1.0.0</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="https://astral.sh/blog/openai?featured_on=pythonbytes">Astral to join OpenAI</a></strong></li> <li><strong>uv audit</strong></li> <li><strong><a href="https://mkennedy.codes/posts/fire-and-forget-or-never-with-python-s-asyncio/?featured_on=pythonbytes">Fire and forget (or never) with Python’s asyncio</a></strong></li> <li><strong>Extras</strong></li> <li><strong>Joke</strong></li> </ul><a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8BJzKSMwvQ' style='font-weight: bold;'data-umami-event="Livestream-Past" data-umami-event-episode="474">Watch on YouTube</a><br> <p><strong>About the show</strong></p> <p>Sponsored by us! 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Usually <strong>Monday</strong> at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Finally, if you want an artisanal, hand-crafted digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to <a href="https://pythonbytes.fm/friends-of-the-show">our friends of the show list</a>, we'll never share it.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Brian #1: <a href="https://starlette.dev/release-notes/#100rc1-february-23-2026">Starlette 1.0.0</a></strong></p> <ul> <li>As a reminder, Starlette is the foundation for FastAPI</li> <li><a href="https://marcelotryle.com/blog/2026/03/22/starlette-10-is-here/?featured_on=pythonbytes">Starlette 1.0 is here!</a> - fun blog post from Marcello Trylesinski</li> <li>“The changes in 1.0 were limited to removing old deprecated code that had been on the way out for years, along with a few bug fixes. From now on we'll follow SemVer strictly.”</li> <li>Fun comment in the “What’s next?” section: <ul> <li>“Oh, and Sebastián, Starlette is now out of your way to release FastAPI 1.0. 😉”</li> </ul></li> <li>Related: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/22/starlette/?featured_on=pythonbytes">Experimenting with Starlette 1.0 with Claude skills</a> <ul> <li>Simon Willison</li> <li>example of the new lifespan mechanism, very pytest fixture-like <div class="codehilite"> <pre><span></span><code><span class="nd">@contextlib</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">asynccontextmanager</span> <span class="k">async</span> <span class="k">def</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">lifespan</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">app</span><span class="p">):</span> <span class="k">async</span> <span class="k">with</span> <span class="n">some_async_resource</span><span class="p">():</span> <span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;Run at startup!&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">yield</span> <span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;Run on shutdown!&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="n">app</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Starlette</span><span class="p">(</span> <span class="n">routes</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">routes</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">lifespan</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">lifespan</span> <span class="p">)</span> </code></pre> </div></li> </ul></li> </ul> <p><strong>Michael #2: <a href="https://astral.sh/blog/openai?featured_on=pythonbytes">Astral to join OpenAI</a></strong></p> <ul> <li>via John Hagen, thanks</li> <li>Astral has agreed to join <a href="https://openai.com/?featured_on=pythonbytes"><strong>OpenAI</strong></a> as part of the <a href="https://chatgpt.com/codex?featured_on=pythonbytes"><strong>Codex</strong></a> team</li> <li>Congrats Charlie and team</li> <li>Seems like <a href="https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff?featured_on=pythonbytes">**Ruff</a>** and <a href="https://github.com/astral-sh/uv?featured_on=pythonbytes"><strong>uv</a></strong> play an important roll.</li> <li>Perhaps <a href="https://github.com/astral-sh/ty?featured_on=pythonbytes"><strong>ty</strong></a> holds the most value to directly boost Codex (understanding codebases for the AI)</li> <li>All that said, these were open source so there is way more to the motivations than just using the tools.</li> <li>After joining the Codex team, we'll continue building our open source tools.</li> <li><a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/19/openai-acquiring-astral/?featured_on=pythonbytes">Simon Willison has thoughts</a></li> <li><a href="http://discuss.python.org?featured_on=pythonbytes">d</a><a href="https://discuss.python.org/t/openai-to-acquire-astral/106605?featured_on=pythonbytes">iscuss.python.org also has thoughts</a></li> <li>The <a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/openai-is-acquiring-open-source-python-tool-maker-astral/?featured_on=pythonbytes">Ars Technica article</a> has interesting comments too</li> <li>It’s probably the death <a href="https://astral.sh/pyx?featured_on=pythonbytes">pyx</a> <ul> <li>Simon points out “pyx is notably absent from both the Astral and OpenAI announcement posts.”</li> </ul></li> </ul> <p><strong>Brian #3: uv audit</strong></p> <ul> <li>Submitted by Owen Lemont</li> <li>Pieces of <code>uv audit</code> have been trickling in. <a href="https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases?featured_on=pythonbytes">uv 0.10.12 exposes it to the cli help</a></li> <li>Here’s the <a href="https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/18506?featured_on=pythonbytes">roadmap for uv audit</a></li> <li>I tried it out on a package and found a security issue with a dependency <ul> <li>not of the project, but of the testing dependencies</li> <li>but only if using Python &lt; 3.10, even though I’m using 3.14</li> </ul></li> <li>Kinda cool</li> <li>Looks like it generates a uv.lock file, which includes dependencies for all project supported versions of Python and systems, which is a very thorough way to check for vulnerabilities.</li> <li>But also, maybe some pointers on how to fix the problem would be good. No <code>--fix</code> yet.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Michael #4: <a href="https://mkennedy.codes/posts/fire-and-forget-or-never-with-python-s-asyncio/?featured_on=pythonbytes">Fire and forget (or never) with Python’s asyncio</a></strong></p> <ul> <li>Python’s <code>asyncio.create_task()</code> can silently garbage collect your fire-and-forget tasks starting in Python 3.12</li> <li>Formerly fine async code can now stop working, so heads up</li> <li>The fix? Use a set to upgrade to a strong ref and a callback to remove it</li> <li>Is there a chance of task-based memory leaks? Yeah, maybe.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Extras</strong></p> <p>Brian:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/03/03/nobody-gets-promoted-for-simplicity/?featured_on=pythonbytes">Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity</a> - interesting read and unfortunate truth in too many places.</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/okken/pytest-check?featured_on=pythonbytes">pytest-check</a> - All built-in check helper functions in this list also accept an optional <code>xfail</code> reason. <ul> <li>example: <code>check.equal(actual, expected, xfail="known issue #123")</code></li> <li>Allows some checks to still cause a failure to happen because you no longer have to mark the whole test as xfail Michael:</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://x.com/rachpradhan/status/2034191434182738096?featured_on=pythonbytes">TurboAPI</a> - FastAPI + Pydantic compatible framework in Zig (see <a href="https://x.com/rachpradhan/status/2035928730242371716?featured_on=pythonbytes">follow up</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/2.1-branch/whatsnew-2.1.html?featured_on=pythonbytes">Pyramid 2.1</a> is out (yes really! :) first release in 3 years)</li> <li><a href="https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-7-9/?featured_on=pythonbytes">Vivaldi 7.9 adds</a> minimalist hide mode.</li> <li>Migrated <a href="http://pythonbytes.fm">pythonbytes.fm</a> and <a href="http://talkpython.fm?featured_on=pythonbytes">talkpython.fm</a> to <a href="https://mkennedy.codes/posts/raw-dc-the-orm-pattern-of-2026/?featured_on=pythonbytes">Raw+DC design pattern</a></li> <li><a href="https://mkennedy.codes/posts/use-chameleon-templates-in-the-robyn-web-framework/?featured_on=pythonbytes">Robyn + Chameleon package</a></li> </ul> <p><strong>Joke: We now have <a href="https://translate.kagi.com?featured_on=pythonbytes">translation services</a></strong></p>