This post describes a Sudoku solver in Python. Even the most challenging Sudoku puzzles can be quickly and efficiently solved with depth first search and con... (more…)

Well, not quite. But here’s what I’ve settled on after working with Python constantly since 2012. (more…)

Python’s context managers are great for resource management and stopping the propagation of leaked abstractions. You’ve probably used it while opening a file or a database connection. Usually it starts with a with statement like this: (more…)

Specifying a particular version of Python via your app's runtime.txt. (more…)

As a software engineer, I’m always looking for ways to optimize the tedious tasks and repetition out of my workflow, and one of these repetitive tasks is building and maintaining Python packages - you know, the repositories that get uploaded into devpi or... (more…)