In version 3.8, Python supports System V style shared memory. This support allows creation of memory segments that can be shared between… (more…)

I was writing a lambda function which, among other things, was supposed to read a csv file from S3, perform some validation on every row, then use boto3 to perform an S3 multipart upload. I created a wrapper class around the multipart upload functionality... (more…)

Gaining insights into your Python code using the dis-module... (more…)

Code reuse is a very common need. It saves you time for writing the same code multiple times, enables leveraging other smart people’s work… (more…)

Python is slow, and compiled languages like Rust, C, or C++ are fast. So when your application is too slow, rewriting some of your code in a compiled extension can seem like the natural approach to speeding things up. Unfortunately, compiled extensions ar... (more…)