I think the mypy static type checker is a fantastic initiative, and absolutely love it. My one complaint is that it relies a little too much on subclassing f...

Have you noticed how good The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python is? The documentation there on virtualenv is exemplary. (more…)

I used to love asyncio. For a period of time, nearly all my stuff was written for asyncio. I wrote a Flask-like (mistake IMO) web framework, and a fully async ORM, both built from the ground up for asyncio. I even got in arguments defending it with people... (more…)

A while back, I read this wonderful article called "Top 50 ggplot2 Visualizations - The Master List (With Full R Code)". Many of the plots looked very useful. In this post, I'll look at creating the first of the plot in Python (with the help of Stack Over... (more…)

Introduction In this series of posts, I’ll discuss several options for implementing graphs and basic graph aglorithms, mostly from the API and code clarity perspective. All the source code is… (more…)