About this session
This talk will cover:
- When to consider adding plugin support to your project
- Understanding Pluggy, the Python world's most mature plugin mechanism and possibly the most effective plugin framework in any language
- How entrypoints enable simply installing a new Python package to register it as an installed plugin
- How to effectively design your plugin hooks: the ways in which your software can be customized by plugins
- Traps to avoid in implementing plugins
- Documentation! How to ensure potential authors have everything they need to start writing plugins
I'll illustrate the talk with examples of different plugin patterns I have tried in my own software.
Presented by
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Simon Willison
Simon Willison is the creator of Datasette, an open source tool for exploring and publishing data. He currently works full-time developing open source tools for data journalism, built around Datasette and SQLite.
Simon has spent the last year and a half deeply immersed in the world of Large Language Models, trying to solve the fascinating problems of how to responsibly use the technology in the two fields he knows best: journalism and software engineering.
Prior to becoming an independent open source developer, Simon was an engineering director at Eventbrite. Simon joined Eventbrite through their acquisition of Lanyrd, a Y Combinator funded company he co-founded in 2010.
He is a board member of the Python Software Foundation and a co-creator of the Django Web Framework, and has been blogging about web development and programming since 2002 at https://simonwillison.net/
