Wandering Thoughts archives

2012-12-30:	What I'd have liked to hear about Python 3 from the developers
2012-12-26:	Does Python 2 need to evolve?
2012-12-25:	A confession: Python 3 has always made me kind of angry
2012-12-12:	One good use for default function arguments
2012-11-25:	More thoughts on why Python doesn't see much monkey-patching The limits of monkey patching in Python
2012-11-19:	Python 3's `print()` annoys me (although maybe it shouldn't)
2012-11-11:	A reminder: string concatenation really is string concatenation
2012-10-18:	A danger of default values for function arguments (in illustrated form)
2012-10-06:	Python can execute zip files
2012-09-19:	Two views of the argparse module
2012-09-18:	My Python versions
2012-09-17:	The options problem in Python
2012-09-09:	When I've interned Python strings
2012-08-12:	A nice illustration of the cost of creating and destroying objects in Python The CPython bytecode difference between iteration and looping
2012-08-06:	The theoretical legality of shadowing builtins in Python
2012-07-29:	The periodic strangeness of idiomatic Python
2012-07-18:	Strings in Python 2 and Python 3
2012-07-16:	My arrogance about Unicode and character encodings
2012-07-15:	My general issue with Unicode in Python 3
2012-06-30:	What Linux distributions should do to help their Python 3 transitions
2012-06-29:	The magnitude of the migration to Python 3, illustrated
2012-06-19:	How I'm doing AJAX with Django in my web app
2012-06-17:	A realization about whether I can contribute to Python development
2012-05-06:	Why I wound up using Django
2012-05-04:	Explaining a piece of deep weirdness with Python's `exec`
2012-05-03:	Python scopes and the CPython bytecode opcodes that they use
2012-05-01:	Into the depths of a Python `exec` scope-handling bug
2012-04-29:	The Python language tutorial is a gem
2012-04-09:	Understanding hashing in Python
2012-04-04:	More on equality in Python (well, mostly Python 2.7)
2012-04-03:	Python's two versions of equality, with a long digression on `hash()`
2012-03-20:	How I use objects in Python
2012-03-04:	Some stuff on Python 2.7.x support periods
2012-02-25:	The (future) problem with Python 2.7
2012-02-21:	Using and understanding Python metaclasses (an index)
2012-01-27:	Why metaclasses work in Python
2012-01-16:	Understanding `isinstance()` on Python classes
2012-01-02:	An example sort that needs a comparison function

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