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Python scandir ignores hidden directories

The next version of markata will be around a full second faster at building it’s docs, that’s a 30% bump in performance at the current state. This performance will come when virtual environments are stored in the same directory as the source code.

I was looking through my profiler for some unexpected performance hits, and noticed that the docs plugin was taking nearly a full second (sometimes more), just to run glob.

| |- 1.068 glob markata/plugins/docs.py:40 | | |- 0.838 <listcomp> markata/plugins/docs.py:82 | | | `- 0.817 PathSpec.match_file pathspec/pathspec.py:165 | | | [14 frames hidden] pathspec, <built-in>, <string>

Python scandir ignores hidden directories #

I started looking for different solutions and what I found was that I was hitting pathspec with way more files than I needed to.

len(list(Path().glob("**/*.py"))) # 6444 len([Path(f) for f in glob.glob("**/*.py", recursive=True)]) # 110

After digging into the docs I found that...

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⭐ darrenburns elia

I recently discovered elia by darrenburns, and it’s truly impressive.

A snappy, keyboard-centric terminal user interface for interacting with large language models. Chat with ChatGPT, Claude, Llama 3, Phi 3, Mistral, Gemma and more.

Getting Started with Pydantic

global Field global BaseModel from pydantic import BaseModel from pydantic import Field

Pydantic is a Python library for serializing data into models that can be validated with a deep set of built in valitators or your own custom validators, and deserialize back to JSON or dictionary.

To install pydantic you will first need python and pip. Once you have pip installed you can install pydantic with pip.

pip install pydantic

Always install in a virtual environment

To get started with pydantic you will first need to create a Pydantic model. This is a python class that inherits from pydantic.BaseModel.

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setting up paru | installing from the AUR for the first time

AUR.">paru is an aur helper that allows you to use a package manager to install packages from the aur.

The Aur is a set of community managed packages that can be installed on arch based distros.

paru just makes it easy, no clone and run makepkg. You can do everything paru can do using the built in pacman installer.

You will need to manually instal pacman from the aur in order to get started.

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