https://sobolevn.me/2019/02/python-exceptions-considered-an-antipattern While eloquent and thorough, I remain unconvinced that this is a significant improvement over try/except. It's common enough in some functional languages to have strong support and a long, successful history. I think it replaces one problem with another. It's not a "solution …
more ...Had a question about an enumerated set of constant values. "Where do I put these constants?" they asked. It was clear what they wanted. This is another variation on their personal quest which can be called "I want Python to have CONST or Final." It's kind of tedious when a …
more ...See this
Dear Pythonista lazyweb: If I have a property spam and the attribute that backs it is _spam, what do we call that? The "backing attribute"? The "original property"? Something else? Is there an official term for this?
—Al Sweigart (@AlSweigart) January 29, 2019
My answer was -- frankly -- vague …
more ...Today's Example of Starting Badly: Building HTML.
The code has a super-simple email message with f"<html><body><p>stuff {data}</p></body></html>". It was jammed into an email object along with the text version. All very nice. For a moment, I considered suggesting that f-string substitution wasn't a …
more ...I can't actually share all the code. So this feels incomplete. But I can share what I said about the code. Then you can look at your code and decide if you've got similar problems to fix.
My responses were these. I'll expand on them below.
See 10 Reasons to Learn Python in 2019.
I want to dwell on #4 for a moment.
The Python community actually has a Code of Conduct. We try to stick by it and conferences will have reporting mechanisms in place so we can educate folks who are being inconsiderate or …
more ...There are patterns to bad writing. I'll give some examples based on a blog post I was sent. It's also based -- indirectly -- on some of proposals I saw for PyCon and PyDataDC.
For the conference calls for papers, I can ask a few questions of the author, but that's about …
more ...Videos are up from PyDataDC 2018. See all the PyData talks at PyDataTV on YouTube.
more ...PyCon CFP closes in a day or so. See https://us.pycon.org/2019/speaking/ for details.
After looking at 100's of proposals there are several broad categories.
See Bashing the Bash — Replacing Shell Scripts with Python for some concrete examples of stuff you can do in Python or the shell.
And yes, it's a good, workable idea.