A deep-ish dive into Python’s support for assigning attributes to functions. (more…)

Recently, I have stumbled upon an apparently strange situation in which a non-empty Python package was empty after it got imported. Let’s take a close look at that issue because it may happen to anyone. (more…)

With the EoL of Python 2 being in line with development of Python 3.9 there were changes made to Python 3.9 that broke a lot of packages since many deprecati... (more…)

Python 3.8 was released in mid-October, but if you look at my recommendation for a base image for Docker it still talks about Python 3.7. And in fact, switching to Python 3.8 immediately can cause you problems. Wondering when to switch your application? H... (more…)

Nornir is an automation framework written in python to be used with python. Most automation frameworks hide the language they are written in by using some cumbersome pseudo-language which usually is almost Turing complete, but lacks tooling to debug and t... (more…)