Created on 2011-06-16 03:10 by ncoghlan, last changed 2016-08-15 22:09 by gvanrossum. This issue is now closed. (more…)

This PEP proposes introducing syntactic sugar f(x=) for the common pattern where a named argument is the same as the name of the variable corresponding to its value f(x=x). (more…)

Constant factor approximation algorithm for facility location. - ssilwa/FacilityLocation... (more…)

For reasons outside of the scope of this entry, I recently installed Ubuntu's package (for Ubuntu 20.04) of the Python netaddr on a system of ours. When I did, I got an interesting Python warning that I hadn't seen before: (more…)

The comedy that runs through Rivka Galchen’s “Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch” is a magical brew of absurdity and brutality. (more…)