Lacking Rhoticity

Here are two functions I would like to see in the Python standard library: def read_file(filename): fh = open(filename, "r") ...

[I've had a draft of this post floating around since June, and it's about time I posted it.] Guido van Rossum's criticisms of ...

I find that postmortem debugging is useful (e.g. examining process state in gdb or pdb after a crash or traceback), but trying to debug usin...

I read about eXplode in early 2007. The paper describes a neat technique, inspired by model checking, for exhaustively exploring all execu...

Time for another post on how object-capability security might be done in Python. Suppose function closures in Python were encapsulated (i....

The Python standard library now works under Native Client in the web browser, including the Sqlite extension module . By that I mean tha...

Time for me to follow up my previous blog post and explain the code snippets. Snippet 1 funcs = [] for x in (1, 2, 3): funcs.append...

What do the six following chunks of code do, and what would you like them to do? Which do you prefer? funcs = [] for x in (1, 2, 3): ...

This is the third post in a series about automated testing in Python (earlier posts: 1 , 2 ). This post is about testing using golden files....

Following on from my post on TempDirTestCase , here is another Python test case helper which I introduced at work. Our codebase has quite a...

Here is another problem with securing Python 3.0: PEP 3101 has extended format strings so that they contain an attribute access syntax. Th...

CapPython needs to block access to method functions. Luckily, one case is already covered by Python's unbound methods, but they are goi...