A place for me to babble on about Python development, Python itself, and coding in general. The title is inspired by some knights who enjoy a good shrubbery.
PyCon 2013 is now over and it was awesome (as usual)! As seems to happen every year, there were a few themes at the conference. Packaging ...
Today marks a decade since I made my first commit to CPython's repository on Sat, 19 Apr 2003 04:00:56 +0000 ( python-checkins , hg.python...
I am moving my blogging over to Medium . My personal account will have both personal and technical posts. I have a collection just for my t...
While at PyCon I heard about plans to integrate Gittip into rubygems.org and so I decided to have another look at Gittip . For those that ...
Being the language nerd that I am, I actually find it fun to learn new programming languages. Now typically this is nothing more than me rea...
[UPDATE: had a talk with +Thomas Wouters on IM and has caused me to rethink things. New thoughts up top, original post after the jump break...
Now I don't mean in the PyPy sense where you can bootstrap yourself with another Python installation. No, I'm talking about all you have is...
TL;DR : choose one way to signify the lack of information in an API either as making the attribute optional or setting a default value (e.g....
This past week I was on a 5 hour train ride where I was doing some API work on importlib to make it easier to customize imports. The route ...
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