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Dependency management in code files is not great - 2021 January 03
Managing dependencies via executable code files seems OK but actually turns into a massive pain, here's why.
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Default parameters and sentinel objects - 2020 August 18
How you can use sentinel objects to define default parameters in Python without running into the mutable default parameter pitfall.
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Python's data model and intuitive operators - 2020 July 11
Being familiar with the implications of Python's data model will help you be able to make more intuitive APIs.
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PyPi web API - 2020 May 12
PyPi has a web API that will give you JSON encoded information about packages.
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Updating your setup.py files to the newer format - 2020 May 11
One of the not so nice things about legacy installable python packages is the executable nature of setup.py files. This means amongst other things that you can't reliably determine the contents of some setup.py files without arbitrary code execution. This is what led to PEP 518 which specified a declarative metadata format that can be stored in easy to parse file. Updating is a pain though, but thankfully there's some tooling that makes this easier as I found out recently.
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Creating your own user events in pygame - 2020 April 21
Here's how you can create your own user events in Pygame.
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Unicode whitespaces in Python - 2020 April 20
Getting a list of all the Unicode whitespace characters is less straightforward than I would have hoped.
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Finding out what a python script imports - 2020 April 16
Finding out what a Python module imports
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Pylint false positives with C extensions - 2020 April 14
Pylint can give you false positives for missing-member errors when C extensions are involved, here's why and what you can do to avoid the issue.
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Have we reached peak Python? - 2020 April 09
Has Python reached the peak of the hype cycle?
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