As part of this blog series on Python's syntactic sugar, I said in the post on unary arithmetic operators that it might be the most boring post in this series. I think I was wrong. 😄 The operators is and is not are very short. The documentation for the op... (more…)

Not too long ago, Facebook unveiled Graphql. This was thought up to be a flexible data access layer designed to work as a simple interface on top of heterogeneous data sources. Not long after facebook had introduced it, github announced that the latest ve... (more…)

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…)

Six more examples of ways to refactor your Python code, and why they are improvements. (more…)

As Pavel Cisar promised at Firebird Conference in Berlin, the Firebird has brandnew DB API 2.0 driver for Python. It’s part of modernization campaignthat shakes off the legacy that goes back to KInterbasDB and Firebird 2.0. Please note, that his new drive... (more…)