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PEP438 is live: speed up python package installs now! 19 May 2013 | 01:49 pm
My “speed up pypi installs” PEP438 has been accepted and transition phase 1 is live: as a package maintainer you can speed up the installation for your packages for all your users now, with the click ...
If i were to tweet a mysogynist joke … 23 Mar 2013 | 05:16 pm
If a man were to tweet a mysogynist joke and his followers were men, would that be an issue? What if one of them re-tweets it and one of his female followers complains on twitter? And then many other ...
Packaging, testing, pypi and my Pycon Russia adventures 1 Mar 2013 | 06:38 pm
A few days ago I talked at Pycon Russia on packaging and testing and a new PyPI Server implementation and workflow tool i am working on, codenamed devpi. See the slides and the video. The slides are c...
Traditional family models in the IT and Python world 14 Dec 2012 | 04:38 pm
PSF’s code of conduct enforcement is a good step, but what about the many traditional family models in the IT world? I know many fathers which are busy fulltime with non-child stuff, and their partner...
metaprogramming in Python: What CPython, PyPy, Pyramid, pytest and politics have in common … 22 Nov 2012 | 08:04 pm
Metaprogramming in Python too often revolves around metaclasses, which are just a narrow application of the “meta” idea and not a great one at that. Metaprogramming more generally deals with reasoning...
execution locals: better than thread locals/globals 16 Nov 2012 | 07:22 pm
While many agree that global state is evil, the so called “thread locals” are not much better. Even though they help to separate state on a per-thread or per-greenlet basis, they still are global with...
execution locals: better than thread locals/globals 16 Nov 2012 | 07:22 pm
While many agree that global state is evil, the so called “thread locals” are not much better. Even though they help to separate state on a per-thread or per-greenlet basis, they still are global with...
If i were to design a new programming language … 13 Nov 2012 | 08:29 pm
I’d see to base syntax and semantics on Python3, but strip and rebase it: no C: implement the interpreter in RPython, get a JIT for free and implementation bits from PyPy’s Python interpreter (parsing...
If i were to design a new programming language … 13 Nov 2012 | 08:29 pm
I’d see to base syntax and semantics on Python3, but strip and rebase it: no C: implement the interpreter in RPython, get a JIT for free and implementation bits from PyPy’s Python interpreter (parsing...
If i were to design a new programming language … 13 Nov 2012 | 08:29 pm
I’d see to base syntax and semantics on Python3, but strip and rebase it: no C: implement the interpreter in RPython, get a JIT for free and implementation bits from PyPy’s Python interpreter (parsing...
