This week, Twitter upped their single-tweet character limit from 140 to 280, purportedly based on this interesting analysis of tweet lengths published on Twitter's engineering blog. The gist of the analysis is this: English language tweets display a rough... (more…)

Python utility for tracking third party dependencies within a library - GitHub - IBM/import-tracker: Python utility for tracking third party dependencies within a library... (more…)

fontpreview: What is this Python project? This is a library that allows you to create preview images from one or more selected fonts. What's the difference between this Python project and simil... (more…)

Abstract classes, methods and Zope interfaces, adapters in Python... (more…)

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