We introduce a new type of programming challenge called programming puzzles, as an objective and comprehensive evaluation of program synthesis, and release an open-source dataset of Python Programming Puzzles (P3). Each puzzle is defined by a short Python... (more…)

TL;DR: This blog post shows how multiprocessing.Pool can be seamlessly scaled from a single machine to a cluster. (more…)

“Python is about having the simplest, dumbest compiler imaginable.” —Guido van Rossum, Masterminds of Programming... (more…)

If you have a product to sell, whether it is a physical good or a subscription service, then you need a way to manage your transactions. The Oscar ecommerce framework for Django is a flexible, extensible, and well built way for you to add that functionali... (more…)

“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” – Douglas Adams This expands on my recent post The In… (more…)