NASA has a bunch of awesome APIs which give you programmatic access to the wonders of space. I think the Mars Rover Photos API in particular is really amazing as you can use it to see what kind of pictures the Mars Curiosity rover has been taking. (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…)

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To gain a performance boost and avoid reallocation of frequently used integers, Python creates singleton instances of small integer values and uses them by reference. (more…)

Python dependency injection is a great practice to make our python modules more testable, maintainable and scalable. Learn how can we implement that while designing our modules. (more…)