See https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/python-interviews I'm honored. I'll be studying what the other folks have to say in here. Being in the Python community means respecting other's views. And that means understanding them. This looks like fun because it isn't *deeply* technical, it's about people and technology.
more ...Recent publications elsewhere: Spec to Gherkin to Code
more ...I was "volunteered" by a colleague to help the program committee for PyCon 2018. I rarely think of myself as qualified for this kind of thing. Yes. I have six books on Python (with a seventh on the way) but the PSF folks are brilliant and dedicated and hard-working, and …
more ...TL;DR -- To remove doubts and questions, rewrite it.
Many, many people are confronted with the request to maintain someone else's code.
Either it's open source, and you have to make formal PR's visible to the world.
Or it's "enterprise" in-house software, and you have to make PR's visible to …
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Raymond Hettinger(@raymondh)
12/15/17, 11:40 AM https://twitter.com/raymondh/status/941709626545864704?refsrc=email&s=11
#python news: 😀
@gvanrossum just pronounced that dicts are now guaranteed to retain insertion order. This is the end of a long journey.
In the mailbag I found this nonsense, doomed to inevitable failure:
"As I get more serious about this data science stuff, it has become obvious that a windows machine is not the way to go. ... Q1: What other things should I think about and consider while shopping for a new …more ...