Wandering Thoughts archives

2006-12-09:	How DWiki uses partial function evaluation
2006-12-03:	More fun with Python's indentation rules
2006-11-30:	How Python parses indentation
2006-11-29:	Turning off HTTP basic authentication in urllib
2006-11-09:	The importance of printable objects
2006-11-05:	An interesting Python garbage collection bug
2006-10-29:	Python's `assert` is a weak debugging tool
2006-10-06:	A Python quoting irritation
2006-09-17:	How to convert a time string in GMT to seconds since the epoch
2006-09-11:	Python's extra-clever `help()` function
2006-09-07:	Industrial strength Python
2006-08-31:	`SIGCHLD` versus Python: a problem of semantics
2006-08-30:	A problem with debugging threaded Python programs
2006-08-07:	A problem in Python's implementation of closures
2006-07-20:	Why I like Python more than Perl
2006-07-19:	Using Python to test system behavior
2006-07-04:	A surprise with using `object()` instances
2006-06-26:	WSGI versus asynchronous servers
2006-06-24:	A problem with signals in Python
2006-06-19:	WSGI: the good and the bad
2006-06-05:	A Python coding mistake
2006-06-02:	An object identity gotcha in Python
2006-05-29:	An obvious way to do bulk initialization of dictionaries
2006-05-20:	Things that irritate me about Python's socket module
2006-05-16:	A Python limit I never expected to run into
2006-05-12:	The problem with preforking Python network servers
2006-05-10:	The practical cost of forking in Python
2006-04-17:	What do variable names mean (in Python and elsewhere)?
2006-04-14:	Why `del` has to be a Python builtin
2006-04-07:	A pleasing Python regularity with `__future__`
2006-04-05:	Keeping up with new Python features
2006-03-25:	A little gotcha with `os.path.join`
2006-03-23:	We apologize for the disruption in syndication feeds
2006-03-16:	A tricky memoization decorator
2006-03-09:	Closures versus classes for capturing state
2006-03-04:	`os.walk` can be surprisingly slow
2006-03-03:	Visualizing dynamic program flow
2006-02-27:	Python's extra-clever function parameters
2006-02-25:	More clever (ab)use of `and` and `or` A trick for handling mutable default arguments
2006-02-20:	More on regular expression performance
2006-02-17:	Some regular expression performance surprises
2006-02-09:	Using the tempfile module to get temporary files
2006-01-19:	A Python length gotcha
2006-01-11:	Recording attribute access and method calls
2006-01-04:	Python synergies in list addressing

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