Archive: August 2021

The rinds of the Cheese Shop menu

The title is a reference to the mostly forgotten nickname of the excellent Python Package Index — Cheese Shop — which refers to the Monty Python Cheese Shop sketch. I often find myself staring at the piwheels monitor, and occasionally a strange package name or an unusually longer version number...

Tags: stats

Python 3.9 wheels for Bullseye

Debian 11 (Bullseye) is due to be released shortly is now released, and Raspberry Pi OS will follow suit is also released. Bullseye comes with Python 3.9, so we needed to rebuild all platform wheels for the new ABI. We've added a Bullseye column to the versions table on project pages to show the...