Wandering Thoughts archives

2009-12-10: How not to copy a file to standard output in Python
2009-12-05: What version of Python is included in various current OSes
2009-11-17: Finally understanding the appeal of 'Interfaces'
2009-11-16: 'Is-a' versus 'is-a-descendant-of'
2009-11-15: A limitation of Python types from C extension modules
2009-11-08: My problem with the obvious solution to my unexposed types problem
2009-11-07: Solving unexposed types and the limits of duck typing
2009-10-28: Python modules should make visible their (fundamental) types
2009-10-22: How to waste lots of CPU time checking for module updates
2009-09-22: Some trivia about Python frame objects
2009-09-21: Exploring the frame object f_builtins member
2009-08-26: A frame object's f_locals isn't always the locals
2009-08-22: A gotcha with Python's new signal.siginterrupt()
2009-08-20: Python modules should not reinvent OSError
2009-08-19: Python, signal handlers, and EINTR
2009-07-26: The anatomy of a hack to get around try:/finally: and generators
2009-07-25: When code in generators runs
2009-06-15: try:/finally: and generators
2009-06-08: Another way that generators are not lists: modifying them
2009-05-23: The drawback of using a language with a good interface to the OS
2009-05-22: How CPython handles (and delays) Unix signals
2009-05-21: Solving the Python SIGCHLD problem
2009-04-20: Some ways to add versioning to pickled objects
Why pickle is not a good way to save your data
2009-03-09: What list methods don't make sense for heterogeneous lists
2009-03-08: Python's theoretically missing core data type
2009-03-07: What past problems of mine the collections module solves
2009-02-15: How CPython optimizes allocations for some built-in types
2009-02-14: Some of my assumptions about Python object allocation
2009-02-13: The accumulator mini-pattern and .setdefault()
2009-01-23: The HTML tax (in Python, and in general)
2009-01-15: Why templating systems are the wrong answer for simple HTML generation
2009-01-12: A surprising lack in Python's standard library
2009-01-03: How to help programmers (parts 2 and 3): os.environ and sys.argv

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