I suspect some people sweat so hard over each line of code that it becomes precious. Valuable. An investment wrung from their very soul. Or something. When they ask for comments, it becomes difficult. The Pull Request context can be challenging. There the code is, beaten into submission after Herculean …

This was a cool thing to see in my Twitter feed:

Dan Bader(@dbader_org)

6/19/17, 10:47PM

"Why Python Is Not My FavoriteLanguage"zenhack.net/2016/12/25/why…

More Problems with Python. Here's the short list. 1. Encapsulation (Inheritance, really.) 2. With Statement 3. Decorators 4. Duck …

The request was murky. It evolved over time to this:

Create a function file_record_selection(train.csv, 2, 100, train_2_100.csv)

First parameter: input file name (train.csv)

Second parameter: first record to include (2)

Third parameter: last record to include (100)

Fourth parameter: output file name (train_2_100.csv)

Fundamentally, this …

Real Question:

One of the standard problems that keeps coming up over and over is the parsing of url's. A sub-problem is the parsing of domain and sub-domains and getting a count.

For example

https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/374880/living-alone-on-a-sailboat/

It would be nice to parse the received …

Real Quote (lightly edited to remove tangential nonsense.)

Recently, I watched a video and it stated that OO is about nouns and Functional programming is about the verbs. Also, ... Aspect-Oriented Programming with the e Verification Language by David Robinson

It would be nice to have a blog post which summarized …

Here's the code: https://github.com/slott56/NMEA-Tools. This is Python code to do some Internet of Things (IoT) stuff. Oddly, even when things connected by a point-to-point serial interface, it's still often called IoT. Even though there's no "Internetworking."

Some IoT projects have a common arc: exploration, modeling, filtering …

https://opensource.com/tags/python Red Hat was an early adopter, putting Python-based tools into their distros. Sadly, they've also lagged behind. They haven't gotten much beyond Python 2.6 or maybe 2.7. RHEL is really good. Except for the Python problem.

This: https://darkf.github.io/posts/problems-i-have-with-python.html

Summary.

1. Slow.
2. Threads.
3. Legacy Python 2 Code.
4. Some Inconsistencies.
5. Functional Programming.
6. Class Definitions Don't Have Enough Features.
7. Switch Statement.

Responses.

1. Find the 20% that needs a speedup and write that in C. Most of the time that's already available in numpy. The …

Several things:

Generating 64 bit hash collisions to DOS Python by Robert Grosse

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6/6/17, 9:14 PM

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What's the most Epic Fail I've ever seen?

I was a traveling consulting for almost 35 years. I saw a lot. I did learn from epic fail scenarios. But. I haven't really spent a lot of time thinking about the lessons learned there. I never have a glib answer to …