2013-07-13

Moving this blog to Medium

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I am moving my blogging over to Medium . My personal account will have both personal and technical posts. I have a collection just for my t...
2013-06-21

Collection of posts on writing a zip file importer in pure Python

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To test out Medium I wrote a collection of posts on implementing a zip file importer using importlib . Do note that the order in the collec...
2013-05-26

Practicality beats purity when it comes to backwards-compatibility

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This past week I was on a 5 hour train ride where I was doing some API work on importlib to make it easier to customize imports. The route ...
2013-04-18

A decade of commits

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Today marks a decade since I made my first commit to CPython's repository on  Sat, 19 Apr 2003 04:00:56 +0000  ( python-checkins , hg.py...
2013-04-12

Why I'm signing up for Gittip

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While at PyCon I heard about plans to  integrate Gittip into rubygems.org and so I decided to have another look at Gittip . For those that ...
2013-03-21

PyCon 2013 report

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PyCon 2013 is now over and it was awesome (as usual)! As seems to happen every year, there were a few themes at the conference. Packaging ...
2013-02-17

Resolving a TOOWTDI interface problem for attributes

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TL;DR : choose one way to signify the lack of information in an API either as making the attribute optional or setting a default value (e.g....
2013-02-01

Remember that the "BC" in ABC means "Base Class"

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[UPDATE: had a talk with +Thomas Wouters  on IM and has caused me to rethink things. New thoughts up top, original post after the jump break...
2012-12-09

How much of Python can be written in Python?

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Now I don't mean in the PyPy sense where you can bootstrap yourself with another Python installation. No, I'm talking about all you...
2012-05-13

My (very shallow) thoughts on Dart

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Being the language nerd that I am, I actually find it fun to learn new programming languages. Now typically this is nothing more than me rea...