Articles tagged Python

  1. Me, Myself and OpenID. Setting up a personal OpenID server using phpMyID
  2. Running Sums in Python. A Python program to generate the running sum of a series.
  3. Eurovision 2008 charts
  4. Scatter pictures with Google Charts
  5. Takewhile drops one
  6. Stop the clock, squash the bug. Which is better, a clock which loses a minute a day or one which is stopped? An investigation into how we find and fix software defects.
  7. White black knight then black white knight. Yet more on drawing chessboards
  8. Drawing Chess Positions. A follow-up article on scripting graphics.
  9. Drawing Chessboards. An article about creating graphics programmatically.
  10. Tracing function calls using Python decorators. Developing code to trace function calls using Python decorators.
  11. Sugar Pie. Approximating pi by scattering sugar.
  12. Top Ten Tags. Choosing the right algorithm to select the N largest items from a collection.
  13. Lexical Dispatch in Python. Dispatching to functions based on their names
  14. Essential Python Reading List. An essential Python reading list. I've ordered the items so you can pause or stop reading at any point: at every stage you'll have learned about as much possible about Python for the effort you've put in.
  15. From Hash Key to Haskell. A note on keys, characters, smileys, digraphs and Haskell.
  16. Animated pair streams. Another look at the functional programming problem of generating an infinite sequence of pairs. An example of using the Python Imaging Library to generate an animated GIF.
  17. Too big or too clever? Steve Yegge says that, for large applications, size is an enemy best controlled by dynamic languages. Alex Martelli says a language can be too dynamic for a large application. Who's right?
  18. The Maximum Subsequence Problem. A stream-based solution to a classic computer science problem.
  19. Elegance and Efficiency. Must elegant code be efficient? This article investigates.
  20. Zippy triples served with Python. How do you generate previous, this next, triples from a collection. A stream-based solution in Python.
  21. RTM vs STW
  22. Big City Skyline Puzzle. Comments on a novel computer science puzzle. When machine resources are scarce, a compiled language offers precise control.
  23. Paralipsis
  24. PyCon UK: statistics, pictures and perennial problems
  25. Pitching Python in three syllables
  26. The Granny—Stroustrup Scale
  27. Koenig’s first rule of debugging. The problems caused by the C++ compilation model, dependencies and cryptic compile diagnostics. If an expert like Andrew Koenig can’t get it right, what hope for the rest of us?
  28. Shameful Names
  29. Space sensitive programming
  30. The Third Rule of Program Optimisation
  31. Why Python programmers should learn Python
  32. Source open, problem closed. An example of the open source advantage.
  33. Evolving Python in and for the real world
  34. Introducing Java
  35. Perlish Wisdom
  36. PyCon UK
  37. The Trouble with Version Numbers
  38. High altitude programming
  39. Python keyword workaround
  40. Charming Python
  41. Shells, Logs and Pipes
  42. Test driven development in Python
  43. Mixing Python and C++
  44. Release then Test
  45. bin2hex.py
  46. Code completion for dynamic languages
  47. Casualties in the great computer shootout. An investigation into various dimensions of some speed benchmark programs.
  48. Retro-fitting coding standards
  49. Code Craft
  50. Narrow Python
  51. Trac — not just a pretty interface
  52. Permission and Forgiveness
  53. Spam, Typo, Subversion Logs
  54. Joined Output and the Fencepost Problem. Items and the spaces between them: some notes on the fencepost problem and joining up strings.
  55. Computer Language Complexity
  56. Look and Say Numbers
  57. Browsing Python Documentation using the Python Sidebar
  58. From __future__ import braces
  59. Python 2.5
  60. String literals and regular expressions. An article about string literals, escape sequences, regular expressions, and the problems encountered when mixing these together.
  61. Parsing C++
  62. Py2exe
  63. Are List Comprehensions the Wrong Way Round?
  64. Message to Self. What’s this?
  65. Octal Literals
  66. A Subversion Pre-Commit Hook. How to install and test a simple Subversion pre-commit hook script.
  67. Readable Code
  68. A Python syntax highlighter
  69. Generating solutions to the 8 Queens Puzzle
  70. My (Test) First Ruby Program
  71. Posting from the command line using mtsend
  72. Metaprogramming is Your Friend. An investigation into metaprogramming techniques used by lazy C, C++, Lisp and Python programmers.
  73. Brackets Off! Thoughts on operator precedence.