Blogs about Python

After having thought about this for a while, I finally decided to start sponsoring some of the open source projects I regularly use. I set aside a monthly budget and I evenly divided the amount …

This week, my neighborhood had a few power outages. Bad news for the uptime of my self-hosted sites! 😅 After the power came back and my server started, Gunicorn services failed with the following error: …

When iterating through lists or other iterables in Python, there are often situations where you need not only the value of each item but also its index. Enter the enumerate() function—a powerful, built-in feature of …

"Get or create" is a very common operation for syncing data in the database, but implementing it correctly may be trickier than you may expect. If you ever had to implement it in a real …

Whenever I publish something about my Python Docker workflows, I invariably get challenged about whether it makes sense to use virtual environments in Docker containers. As always, it’s a trade-off, and I err on the …

I recently encountered an open source project that hadn't received updates for a while. The issue tracker had ~200 open issues, ~70 open pull requests, and CI was partially failing. It's not uncommon for projects …

Today I learned that if you suppress the exception KeyboardInterrupt then your program is still interrupted but it doesn't display a traceback. Interrupting scripts without tracebacks The module contextlib provides a context manager called suppress …

Signalling allows for applications to be decoupled by allowing designated receivers to be informed when an action has taken place (the signal). Flask and Quart both utilise the excellent Blinker library to support signals and …

Link: https://tenacity.readthedocs.io/en/latest/When writing code or tests in Python, one issue I had was when the code would fail due to random things like network issues or external peripherals not responding in time. Just rerunning the …

Important things first: 27 January there's a python meetup in Leiden (NL) of the new python Leiden user group. Meetup groups come and go, often depending on one or two people or on a company …

Welcome to Glimpse of Google, a blog series written by a former Google software engineer, offering a firsthand look into the inner workings of one of the most transformative companies of our time. This series …

Manual inspection of data has probably the highest value-to-prestige ratio of any activity in machine learning. — Greg Brockman, OpenAI, Feb 2023 Tags: machine-learning, openai, ai

In the past week I had two people separately tell me what they thought the Python Software Foundation Conduct WG did and both were wrong (and incidentally in the same way). As such, I wanted …

Version numbering is hard, and there are lots of popular schemes out there for how to do it. Today I want to talk about a system I’ve settled on for my own Django-related packages, and …

I recently got my hands on a USB drive with Kakasoft USB Copy Protection (DRM protection). This software promises to let you share data without the fear of it being copied by the end user. …