Wandering Thoughts archives

2015-12-13:	I still believe in shimming modules for tests
2015-12-06:	The (peculiar) freedom of having a slow language
2015-11-25:	Why speeding up (C)Python matters
2015-11-23:	Why I care about how fast CPython is
2015-11-22:	I should find some good small packages for templates and forms for CGIs
2015-11-18:	Increasingly, I no longer solidly and fully know Python
2015-10-22:	CPython's trust of bytecode is not a security problem
2015-10-21:	Python bytecode is quite heavily trusted by CPython
2015-09-26:	I've decided I'll port DWiki to Python 3, but not any time soon
2015-09-14:	Tweaking code when I'm faced with the urge to replace it entirely
2015-08-21:	What surprised me about the Python assignment puzzle What's going on with a Python assignment puzzle
2015-08-20:	Using abstract namespace Unix domain sockets and `SO_PEERCRED` in Python
2015-07-15:	Eating memory in Python the easy way
2015-07-06:	My Django form field validation and cleanup pain
2015-06-17:	Exploring the irritating thing about Python's `.join()`
2015-06-07:	You won't get people off Python 2 by making their lives worse
2015-05-24:	A mod_wsgi problem with serving both HTTP and HTTPS from the same WSGI app
2015-05-23:	The right way for your WSGI app to know if it's using HTTPS
2015-04-26:	My complicated feelings on abandoning old but good code
2015-04-25:	I'm still running a twelve year old Python program
2015-04-16:	Are Python dictionaries necessarily constant-time data structures?
2015-03-06:	The simple way CPython does constant folding
2015-03-05:	An interesting excursion with Python strings and `is`
2015-02-19:	Exploiting Python metaclasses to forbid subclassing and where it fails
2015-02-18:	I wish Python didn't allow any callable to be a 'metaclass'
2015-02-13:	The technical side of Python metaclasses (a pointer)
2015-01-30:	I've come to believe Django's way of defining database tables is wrong
2015-01-19:	A gotcha with Python tuples

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