Wandering Thoughts archives

2010-12-17:	A Python (non-)idiom that I should really avoid Sometimes bugs have very small edit distances
2010-11-20:	More on those Python import oddities
2010-11-13:	How `os.path` exposes some Python import weirdness
2010-10-26:	Why Python's struct module isn't great for handling binary protocols
2010-10-21:	The problems with testing for round-trip capable codecs
2010-10-20:	Round-trip capable character encodings in Python
2010-10-18:	A module that I want in the standard library: Parsing
2010-09-23:	Why things should be in Python's standard library
2010-09-17:	More on the module selection problem
2010-09-15:	Why I like modules to be in the Python standard library
2010-09-14:	A confession: I find third party modules awkward in Python
2010-09-02:	Why Python's `global` is necessary
2010-08-30:	My avoidance of Python global variables
2010-08-05:	Doing unsigned 32-bit integer math in Python
2010-07-13:	Single-level list flattening in Python
2010-07-02:	A gotcha with Python's `socket.htonl()` and `ntohl()`
2010-06-29:	Converting between IPv4 addresses and 32-bit integers in Python
2010-06-25:	Python class definitions can be nested
2010-06-04:	How to set up your module exceptions to be useful
2010-05-23:	Replacing modules for testing (and fun)
2010-05-13:	Python exceptions for C programmers
2010-04-29:	How you access an object can be important in Python
2010-04-28:	Altering a Python function's local variables with a trace function
2010-04-20:	Standard format Unix errors in Python programs
2010-03-26:	Tkinter sometimes has a busy-wait main loop (more or less)
2010-03-22:	Why I exploit Python to shim modules for testing purposes
2010-03-08:	Exceptions versus error return values
2010-02-19:	Using `socket.getaddrinfo` to look up IP addresses
2010-02-18:	Some notes on using `socket.getaddrinfo()`
2010-01-24:	How I should have done password crypto for DWiki
2010-01-23:	A Python safety tip: Do notice that things can throw exceptions
2010-01-22:	Three ways to get tracebacks in your CGI Python application

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