Lacking Rhoticity

I have spent some time packaging software as Debian packages. While the Debian packaging system has its faults, it has the nice property th...

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 ...

Last year I wrote about a couple of features that I'd like to see in a hypothetical integrated shell and terminal. Since then I hav...

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....