I’ve been working on git-branchless, a Git workflow similar to the Mercurial “stacked-diff” workflows used at Google and Facebook. I originally wrote it in P... (more…)

Cache rules everything around me. `pyc` files can contain secrets and should not be checked in to source control. Use the standard Python [.gitignore](https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Python.gitignore). (more…)

Eggex is Oil's regular expression syntax. You may want to skim the headings of the eggex doc if it's unfamiliar. (more…)

Why Python? A common question we get is: why Python? Isn’t it too slow? How do you scale it to the size of your team? How do you ensure your software is robust? A Lingua Franca The biggest strength of Python is that everyone can use it. We have carefully ... (more…)

Dane Hillard is a Real Python contributor and author of the book Practices of the Python Pro. In this interview, we discuss a variety of topics, including code complexity, Python package maintenance, and popcorn. (more…)