I'm working on yet another Python book. This one looking at functional programming in Python. It doesn't really go with with Mastering Object-Oriented Python and Python for Secret Agents because the focus isn't on Python's strong suit.

In chapter one, a reviewer had this two-word question: "yield from?"

What? What …

Old. But still interesting. Partial Function Application is not Currying It seems like hair-splitting. However, the distinction between bound variables and curried functions does have some practical implications. I'm looking closely at PyMonad and the built-in functools library. I'm finding some benefits in understanding functional programming and how to apply …

Let's talk small. When writing API's, it sometimes helps to have a small demo web site to show the API in a context that's easy to visualize. API's are sometimes abstract, and without an application to provide some context, it can be unclear why the path looks like that or …

Read this: http://quantlabs.net/blog/2014/09/here-is-why-i-gave-up-on-python-aka-dogs-breakfeast-of-a-so-called-programming-language/#sthash.Rp7pXObf.dpuf

Not sure what's going on here.

"Script I want to run" seemed clear. http://vispy.org/examples/basics/scene/surface_plot.html#sthash.kIzbd33O.dpuf

The rest seemed like ill-advised trips down numerous ratholes. In particular, anything that involved …

Let me start with a wow. PyCrypto is very nice. Let me emphasize the add-ons that go with PyCrypto. These are as valuable as the package itself. Here's the story. I was working with a Java-based AES encrypter that used the "PBKDF2WithHmacSHA1" key generator algorithm. This was part of a …