For the oil prototype, I used Python 3 rather than Python 2 to take advantage of both type annotations and type checking with mypy. The mypy type system seems fairly similar to the C++ type system, so these annotations should help when porting the parser...

I wrote up my experience using Python to process data from a shared Google Sheets spreadsheet... (more…)

I started programming in Rust several years ago, and it has gradually changed the way I design programs in other programming languages, most notably in Python. Before I started using Rust, I was usually writing Python code in a very dynamic and type-loose... (more…)

Python 3.6.0 came out day before yesterday, and it was like a Christmas present for many of us. But in the midst of all the celebration…...

Python 3.9.0 is almost ready. This release, 3.9.0rc1, is the penultimate release preview. You can get it here: (more…)