Articles tagged Python

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