Wandering Thoughts archives

2014-12-31:	A retrospective on my one Django web application
2014-12-13:	There are two parts to making your code work with Python 3
2014-11-12:	A wish: setting Python 3 to do no implicit Unicode conversions
2014-11-10:	What it took to get DWiki running under Python 3
2014-11-07:	Porting to Python 3 by updating to modern Python 2
2014-10-31:	A drawback to handling errors via exceptions
2014-10-28:	My current somewhat tangled feelings on `operator.attrgetter`
2014-10-23:	The clarity drawback of allowing comparison functions for sorting
2014-10-20:	Revisiting Python's string concatenation optimization
2014-09-27:	DWiki, Python 3, Python, and me
2014-09-22:	Another side of my view of Python 3
2014-08-23:	Some notes on Python packaging stuff that wasn't obvious to me
2014-08-18:	An example of a subtle over-broad `try` in Python
2014-07-09:	What the differences are between Python `bool`s and `int`s
2014-07-08:	Exploring a surprise with equality in Python
2014-07-05:	Another reason to use frameworks like Django
2014-06-23:	Python 3 has already succeeded in the long run
2014-06-20:	What Python versions I can use (June 2014 edition)
2014-05-22:	Why Python uses bytecode (well, probably): it's simpler
2014-05-09:	Some uses for Python's 'named' form of string formatting
2014-04-27:	Thoughts about Python classes as structures and optimization
2014-04-14:	My reactions to Python's warnings module
2014-04-13:	A problem: handling warnings generated at low levels in your code
2014-03-17:	Simple versus complex marshalling in Python (and benchmarks)
2014-03-13:	The argument about unbound methods versus functions
2014-03-11:	How functions become bound or unbound methods
2014-02-24:	The origins of DWiki and its drifting purpose
2014-02-05:	An interesting internal Django error we just got
2014-01-31:	Why I now believe that duck typed metaclasses are impossible in CPython
2014-01-21:	Fake versus real metaclasses and what a fully functional metaclass is
2014-01-16:	Link: Armin Ronacher's 'More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3'
2014-01-06:	The problem with compiling your own version of Python 3
2014-01-03:	What determines Python 2's remaining lifetime?
2014-01-02:	Python 3's core compatibility problem and decision

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