Why link Python to C?I hope that it is uncontroversial to state that Python is a great language that can suffer from occasional performance issues. This is e... (more…)

More and more investigations are being conducted on Tor and many of them can also include investigating Bitcoin transactions. The nature of Bitcoin is such that the transactions themselves are designed to be anonymous but there are many other factors that... (more…)

In this post I'll show how to write a rudimentary, native x86-64 just-in-time compiler (JIT) in CPython, using only the built-in modules. (more…)

Datetimes are very frustrating to work with in Python, especially when dealing with different locales on different systems. This library exists to make the simple things easier, while admitting that time is an illusion (timezones doubly so), and should be...

After last post on OOP a logical follow-up is Python's data model. We use the great Fluent Python book to code up an example of our own, showing the powerful way you can levarage this data model.