"Users of an old version of the popular Python language face a reckoning at the end of the year," reports Wired, calling it a programmer's "own version of update hell."... (more…)

When using a Python decorator, especially one defined in another library, they seem somewhat magical. Take for example Flask’s routing mechanism. If I put some statement like @app.route(&#822…...

For years I’ve noodled around with various setups for a Python development environment. A couple of years ago I wrote about a setup I finally liked; this is an update to that post. (more…)

Performance measurement is the process of collecting and understanding information regarding the performance of some code.

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...