A few days ago, well-known author and developer Zed Shaw wrote a blog post, “The Case Against Python 3.”   I have a huge amount of respect for Zed’s work, and his book (Learn Python the Hard Way) is one whose approach is similar to mine — so muc...

Hello! As a precursor to writing a Ruby profiler I wanted to do a survey of how existing Ruby & Python profilers work. This also helps answer a question a lot of folks have been asking me, which is “How do you write a profiler?”... (more…)

In this tutorial, you use Python 3 to create the simplest Python "Hello World" application in Visual Studio Code. By using the Python extension, you make VS Code into a great lightweight Python IDE (which you may find a productive alternative (more…)

Legacy code is bad and if you keep using it, it's really your own fault. There are many variations of the same thing floating around in Open Source communities and it always comes down to the same thing: at one point something is being declared old and it... (more…)

Flask's Tox/Travis builds all started failing. Looks like a new version of setuptools was just released that has a problem with six. Obtaining file:///home/david/Projects/flask Installing collected... (more…)