Blogs about Python

Every now and then, my Mastodon or LinkedIn timelines are full of messages either praising or condemning the use of AI tools for coding. Are they good or bad then? As usual I think the …

Sometimes Dall-e says it wont generate an image due to its content policy, particularly if you name copyrighted works. A common example is superhero names. In this case my prompt was: a montage of lord …

I don't have any data to support this next claim, but I'm fairly sure that Excel is the most common way to store, manipulate, and yes(!), even pass data around. This is why it's not …

One of my first TIL entries was about how you can imitate Node’s node_modules semantics in Python on UNIX-like operating systems. A lot has happened since then (to the better!) and it’s time for an …

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 …

In this opinion piece the author expresses his views on what makes a good (Python) tutorial and how that differs from a long talk. A tutorial is not a long talk Bart Simpson internalising the …

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 …

The/my background The company I work for (Nelen & Schuurmans) is a member of the EU 'TEMA' project. TEMA stands for trusted extremely precise mapping and prediction for emergency management. A main focus for us …

Keeping your Django admin panel safe is crucial. Regular passwords are good, but adding another layer of security is even better. That's where Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) comes in.Just for clarity, I will repeat why 2FA …

Ruff v0.4.0: a hand-written recursive descent parser for Python The latest release of Ruff - a Python linter and formatter, written in Rust - includes a complete rewrite of the core parser. Previously Ruff used …

The biggest update since June 2023 is WASI is now a tier 2 platform for CPython! This means that the main branch of CPython should never be broken more than 24 hours for WASI and …

This is the last of a series of posts I’m doing as a sort of Python/Django Advent calendar, offering a small tip or piece of information each day from the first Sunday of Advent through …

I was working on an Elixir project recently and one particular open source package that I wanted to make use of was written in Go. I searched for different ways to interface with Go code …