Python is set to release a new version next year, the shiny 3.9. This one omitted the sys.argv change rolled back in alpha2 Here’s our take of the most noticeable changes: Keyword Arguments Get Some Boost improved sebastian@seberg-x1 ~/python-dev/bin % ./... (more…)

The Portable Document Format (PDF) was invented in the early 1990s and it’s still thriving. But PDFs are mainly for humans – not machines. So it’s often hard to... (more…)

Python decorators are a useful but flawed language feature. Intended to make source code easier to write, and a little more readable, they neglect to address another use case: that of the programmer who will be calling the decorated code. If you’re a Pyth... (more…)

Simple job queues for Python. Contribute to rq/rq development by creating an account on GitHub. (more…)

This post shows how to write a basic JIT compiler for the Python bytecode, using nothing but stock Python modules. (more…)