Wandering Thoughts archives

2008-12-31:	One of Python 3's fundamental problems on Unix
2008-12-07:	How to help programmers (part 1): the `os.listdir()` problem One of Python's problems with packages
2008-11-15:	Getting Python's encoding and decoding straight
2008-11-13:	What the members of a Unicode conversion error object are
2008-11-12:	Why not doing Unicode is easier than doing Unicode in Python
2008-10-31:	Banging rocks together in Python
2008-10-06:	A problem with Python's `help()`
2008-10-04:	Consider having obvious interfaces too
2008-09-30:	Using Python to find out what cipher a SSL server is using
2008-09-09:	The problem with unit testing programs
2008-09-08:	How to get as much of your program byte-compiled as possible
2008-09-07:	Why your main program should be `import`able
2008-08-28:	Thinking about the importance of cross-implementation portability
2008-08-18:	The problem with using tuples and lists to hold structures
2008-08-17:	Thinking about the best way to handle command registration
2008-08-08:	A workaround for the Python module search path issue on Unix
2008-07-28:	What you can (probably) count on for concurrency in Python Another advantage of Python builtins
2008-07-26:	`dict.setdefault()` as a concurrency primitive
2008-06-23:	Why I am not really fond of docstrings in Python More thinking about Python's inheritance model
2008-06-08:	Thinking about Python's inheritance model
2008-05-26:	Shimming modules for testing (and fun)
2008-05-01:	What the `co_names` attribute on Python code objects is
2008-04-28:	Abusing Python frame and code objects
2008-04-27:	Attribute tracing as a mixin class
2008-04-20:	Finding the name of your caller in Python
2008-04-01:	A simple Python class to trace access to object attributes
2008-03-30:	Docstrings versus comments in my code
2008-03-01:	Speed surprises in reimplementing the `.find()` string method
2008-02-29:	An illustration of the speed advantage of Python builtins
2008-02-18:	Coding paralysis
2008-02-13:	A consequence of Python's 'computer science' nature
2008-01-29:	An annoyance in Python's attribute access rules
2008-01-28:	One reason I like Python
2008-01-14:	A Python pattern: Mutating Proxies

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