I have recently become quite an enthusiast for the language Clojure. But why? Why would someone who has spent the last 30 years programming in C, C++, Java, C#, and Ruby suddenly become enamored with a language that has roots that go back to 1957, i.e....

Zed Shaw, of Learn Python the Hard Way fame, has now written The Case Against Python 3.

Hello! As a precursor to writing a Ruby profiler I wanted to do a survey of how existing Ruby & Python profilers work. This also helps answer a question a lot of folks have been asking me, which is “How do you write a profiler?”... (more…)

Is it possible to hit a million requests per second with Python? Probably not until recently. (more…)

I consider myself a medium-to-experienced Python programmer (I am using python for 6 years). Today I've lost almos one hour in a very stupid bug with lambda functions. See what happend: (more…)