After a very long porting journey, Launchpad is finally running on Python 3 across all of our systems. I wanted to take a bit of time to reflect on why my emotional responses to this port differ so much from those of some others who’ve done large ports, s... (more…)

Python 3.6.0 is now available!   Python 3.6.0 is the newest major release of the Python language, and it contains many new features and opti...

Speeling is hard, yeah? Python quiz: What’s the difference between these two packages? urllib3 urlib3 Answer: urllib3, with two l’s … (more…)

So what are multimethods? I'll give you my own definition, as I've come to understand them: a function that has multiple versions, distinguished by the type of the arguments. (Some people go beyond this and also allow versions distinguished by the value... (more…)

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to add time delays to your Python programs. You'll use decorators and the built-in time module to add Python sleep() calls to your code. Then, you'll discover how time delays work with threads, asynchronous functions, an... (more…)