See https://writing.peercy.net/p/python-quirks
Superficially, most of these are true.
Looking a little more deeply, most of them are also presented in a somewhat misleading way. A few set up a good punch-line. The Inheritance one, for example, is funny.
If the point is to force a …
more ...I want to call out two huge problems with Python. I'm not the first to point these out, but they've been bothering me for a while.
I've provided them here to save folks from repeating these. They're now officially "known" and there's no point in repeating …
more ...See https://github.com/slott56/py-web-tool
And https://pypi.org/project/py-web-lp/
I finally made the PyWeb LP tool installable from PyPI.
I need to fix the name of the GitHub repo (some day) to make it also say py-web-lp. I should also fixup my tag cloud to say pyweblp …
more ...The typing module includes the mysterious-looking Annotated type hint. See https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.Annotated for details.
The Annotated type hint lets us append "details" to a …
This was a surprising thing (for me) to see. Surprising because -- after writing a book about functional programming, I'd forgotten that some of the ideas are actually really new to people.
(I've omitted the source of the quote because I want to reuse this without worrying about link rot. Some …
more ...Central to OO design is "encapsulation." It's so central it is part of several separate principles.
In the S. O. L. I. D. design principles it's the Interface Segregation Principle. And a significant part of the Single Responsibility Principle.
In some cases, Python n00bz -- folks who already know some OO …
more ...Let's reach way, way back. 1989 - 1990. This will let me talk about OO programming and Python Type Hints. (really) And doing OO design for things that are as pervasive (and transparent) as air. Things that need to be part of a design, but don't appear in any documentation.
In …
more ...The question was "Favorite Design Patterns."
This is tricky because -- well -- so many patterns appear and re-appear in software. Picking a few from the vast world of patterns is fraught with difficulties.
Here are some thoughts:
Few things are as distracting as those god-awful side quests.
In this case, I had to search out all of the examples in my new book drafts.
Once upon a time, it was a manual check of code in the book to be sure it made sense.
Ugh. Not …
Reaching back to 2008. Yes. Decade(s) ago. Python 2.5.
I was reminded of this when a former colleague pinged me about this: https://github.com/slott56/TigerShark.
Yes, it's an X12/EDI message parsing library from -- well -- decades ago.
Short answer: Parsing X12 …