I'd like to announce an new Python module to make working with Amazon S3 files a whole lot easier. The S3FS class in fs-s3fs wraps an Amazon S3 bucket in a PyFilesystem interface. There was an S3FS class built in to the first version of PyFilesystem, but ... (more…)

Benchmarking the performance of various Python package managers... (more…)

For years I’ve noodled around with various setups for a Python development environment. A couple of years ago I wrote about a setup I finally liked; this is an update to that post. (more…)

I just got home from my sixth PyCon, and it was wonderful as usual. If you weren't able to attend—or even if you were—you'll find a wealth of entertaining and informative talks on the PyCon 2017 YouTube channel. (more…)

This is part 4 in a series of posts on writing JIT compilers for BF. (more…)