What does it take to become a software engineer for a hedge fund? Is there any point in teaching yourself how to code? Do you need to go to university?

I used to love asyncio. For a period of time, nearly all my stuff was written for asyncio. I wrote a Flask-like (mistake IMO) web framework, and a fully async ORM, both built from the ground up for asyncio. I even got in arguments defending it with people... (more…)

I try to not read HN/Reddit too much about Pyston, since while there are certainly some smart and reasonable people on there, there also seem to be quite a few people with axes to grind (*cough cough* Python 3).  But there are some recurring themes I noti... (more…)

python-zeep - A modern/fast python SOAP client based on lxml / requests... (more…)

The Python subprocess module is a powerful swiss-army knife for launching and interacting with child processes. It comes with several high-level APIs like call, check_output and (starting with Python 3.5) run that are focused at child processes our progra... (more…)