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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Dan Bader (@dbader_org)

6/6/17, 9:14 PM

Python job scheduling made simple: schedule.readthedocs.io | |

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 …

Tweet:

Blaming people for using ancient software is really weird. There’s no other context where we demand constant replacement of things that work

—Pinboard (@Pinboard) May 12, 2017

I'm not sold about this argument at all.

The "constant replacement" issue has two sides to it. If you follow the …