Every time you create an instance of a class in Python, you are using up some memory–including overhead that might actually be larger than the data you care about. Create a million objects, and you have a million times the overhead. And that overhead can ... (more…)

Recently, I came across a resource that allowed me to download the entire collection of UTZOO NetNews Archive of the earliest USENET posts. These were essentially the earliest available discussions posted to the Internet by people working at various Unive... (more…)

I just finished replacing httplib in a very large project, Apache Libcloud.

A simple console application that enables hackers to get latest soccer scores and fixtures. - malisit/doksan... (more…)

When one thinks of ways of customizing classes at creation time, people probably typically think of metaclasses and class decorators. Metaclasses are at typically viewed as the beginning of class creation while class decorators are at the end. But what yo... (more…)