This week Python's core developer blog announced the very last production release of Python 2.7. Hackaday reports: The intention was for it to coincide with PyCon 2020, but just like so many of the events planned for the first half of the year, the in-per... (more…)

There’s a pattern that comes up from time to time in the release management of free software projects.

You can expect these libraries to begin raising deprecation warnings soon when they are used in a python 2 based environment. Python 3 is the future and it requires extra development overhead to… (more…)

Dynamically adding or overwriting an instance method in Python is rarely needed, but it's a good excuse to explore interesting aspects of the language that aren't always well known: the descriptor protocol, types.MethodType and partial function applicatio...

I have been using Python since it was a little-known language in 1998. (more…)