Does Python support multi-line comments the way other languages do? What are your options for writing comment blocks in Python if you need them?
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A lot of talk has been happening in the python community about asyncio. Asynchronous programming is the new hot thing in python. In my last post I talked about how to do asynchronous programming and…
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Ruby, unlike Python, makes lots of things implicit, and there's a special kind of if expression that demonstrates this well. It's often referred to as an "inline-if" or "conditional modifier", and this special syntax is able to return one value when a con... (more…)
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Back in 2008 Natalie Downe and I deployed what today we would call a microservice: json-head, a tiny Google App Engine app that allowed you to make an HTTP head ... (more…)
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Have you ever wanted lightning-fast code, without the segfaults and tedious boilerplate of C? Then come learn why so many Pythonistas are excited about Rust,...
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