Driscoll: So how did you end up becoming …

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.

Recent publications elsewhere: Spec to Gherkin to Code

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#python news: 😀

@gvanrossum just pronounced that dicts are now guaranteed to retain insertion order. This is the end of a long journey.

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See https://www.slideshare.net/ITRevolution/does-sfo-2016-topo-pal-devops-at-capital-one for the 16 gates that separate a good idea from secure, productive use of software. While a lot of DevOps folks like the idea, when it comes to implementing it for Python apps, they get confused.

The confusion seems to stem from Python's …

Adding type hints is easy and fun. Seriously. It's not a lot of work.

Until.

Until you find a piece of code that does more than what you sort-of

thought it kind-of did.

def null_aware_func(x):
    if x is None:
         return x
    return 2.2*x**1.05

This is …

In a way, this is about an epic fail attempting copy-and-paste coding. But really, this is about thinking outside the box. The issue -- to me -- comes from failing to see the box. Here's the body of the email, edited slightly.

"...how determine when a file has completed downloading. It would …