Read this: http://thesweetsetup.com/apps/our-favorite-pro-writing-app-for-mac/

What I have been doing instead of using these sophisticated, integrated writing tools?

I use OmniOutliner. https://www.omnigroup.com/omnioutliner I've used it for years. It does a lot of things. Most notably, I can create multiple columns so that I can …

From a reader.

I recently purchased a copy of 'Modern Python Cookbook' but I found that the code listings in the epub file were indented which caused a problem when reading on my tablet. (I reverted to epub as the PDF version froze in the Bookari ereader software.)

I unzipped …

A Real Email.

So, please consider creating a blog post w/ a title something like "Solving the Fred Flintstone Problem using Monads in Python and Haskell"

First. There's this: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyMonad/ and this: http://www.valuedlessons.com/2008/01/monads-in-python-with-nice-syntax.html. Also, see https://en.wikipedia …

Let's talk real-world functional programming. Disclosure: I'm a fan of functional programming in Python. (This: https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/functional-python-programming)

The usual culprits for functional programming are map(), filter(), generator functions, and the various comprehensions. This is very pleasant and can lead to succinct, expressive code.

The reduce operation …

In compiled languages, the build script or makefile is pretty important. Java has maven (and gradle and ant) for this job.

Python doesn't really have much for this. Mostly because it's needless.

However.

Some folks like the idea of a build script. I've been asked for suggestions.

First and foremost …

Warning: Long Boring Anecdote: Conclusions will be drawn from a single example.

First, this quote:

"All your suggestions were great if I had wanted to do a systematic study and truly understand. The goal is to understand and learn as little as possible to be able to undertake the code …

Here's the quote:

...it is amazing how Windows is “special.” Back when ..., special things had to be done for Windows. Python continues the tradition w/ an entire section in its doco titled “3. Using Python on Windows”

I wasn't sure what to make of this.

It appeared that they want …

From someone in the process of becoming a data scientist. They had a question on regular expressions, which made almost no sense. It appears that the core concepts of ETL -- Extracting source data, Transforming it into a useful form and the Loading into some persistent storage for long-term analysis -- had …

This is a common issue. We have a file which was printed for human consumption. Consequently, it has many different kinds of lines.

These are the two kinds of lines of interest:

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See https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/modern-python-cookbook This is a large (!) collection of recipes, focused on Python 3, exclusively. It's much easier to write about the version of Python I actually use each day, and leave the old, quirky, slow Python 2 behind. This book doesn't have any "this will …