Ned Batchelder’s coverage.py is a foundation of the Python testing ecosystem. It is solid, well maintained, and does its job extremely well. I think literally every Python project that cares about testing should be using it. (more…)

You write your code, restart your server, and wait for the screen to update. Bythen, you’re already interrupted. Ever wish you could use the fast development... (more…)

[HAProxyConf 2019] Sebastian Langenhorst and Johannes Kampmeyer describe building self-service load balancing using HAProxy at the University of Paderborn... (more…)

This PEP adds support for syntactic macros to Python. A macro is a compile-time function that transforms a part of the program to allow functionality that cannot be expressed cleanly in normal library code. (more…)

Suppose you are reading from an unbounded data source in increments of a certain size. This is a common sort of situation; for example, reading lines from stdin. The total length of the data source is not known in advance, so the only thing to do is keep ... (more…)