Python posts by Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld

This is an early release.

BinaryOrNot identifies binary files three ways: by extension, by file signature, and by content analysis.

If you've ever had BinaryOrNot misidentify a UTF-16 file, choke on a CJK-encoded document, or crash because chardet changed its API, this release is for you.

You know that thing where you release an album, it's on the shelves, people are buying it, and then someone points out the spine says it's your previous album?

Cookiecutter 2.7.0 is tested on Python 3.10 through 3.14, ships with a security policy documenting the trust model for template hook scripts, and publishes to PyPI with cryptographic provenance so you can verify every release.

Air Web Framework exists not just because we created it, but because of the support we got soft-launching it at Python Philippines and running its first sprint at PyCon Davao.

I've put out the biggest release of cookiecutter-pypackage since the modern rewrite.

We recently reviewed a pull request from contributor Martin Saizar that refactored our Python tests.

On a recent flight from Japan to the Philippines, Pydanny and I started coding a new project.

I co-led the first ever Air web framework sprint in Davao, Philippines, as part of Day 2 of PyCon Davao on October 26, 2025.

Slides from my keynote at PyCon Davao 2025, the first regional Filipino conference for Python programming enthusiasts.

Air is a pioneering AI-first Python web framework that represents the next evolution in web frameworks to be deeply AI-native.

If you need to run Python applications from PyPI without installing them permanently, uvx provides a convenient way to execute Python tools without having to manage dependencies manually.

How to get JSON into a local SQLite database fast.

Continuing the Sentence Transformers exploration, I use a cross-encoder model to rank my notebooks by similarity to search queries.