In December I spent few days with Rust. I wrote few lines of code and was trying to get in touch with the syntax and feeling of the language. One of the major things in my TODO list was figuring out how to write Python extensions in Rust. Armin Ronacher w...

Extending Python has been a core feature of the platform for decades, the Python runtime provides a “C API”, which is a set of headers and… (more…)

Inspired by a similar report from the Copr team, I’ve decided to look back at 2020 from the perspective of Python in Fedora (and little bit in RHEL/CentOS+EPEL as well). Here are the things we have done in Fedora (and EL) in 2020. By we I usually mean the... (more…)

Post about how Python's tuple syntax can make you run around trying to fix bugs that are easily avoided. (more…)

The challenge “7777…8?!??!“, exclaimed Bob, “I missed it again! Argh!” Every time there’s an interesting number coming up, he notices and then promptly forgets. Who doesn’t like catching those one-off interesting mileage numbers? Let’s make it so Bob neve... (more…)