(Some more meanderings on the brouhaha about diversity in the Python world.)
First, I've removed 'python' from the tags and made sure that neither Planet Python nor Advogato feed from this blog otherwise; I suspect by talking about politics and feelings in OSS I'm getting further from my normal target …
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Since a few people have asked, here's a rough guide to the diversity discussion. No specifics allowed.
1. diversity list created to (among other things) ponder an official diversity statement for Python. List is closed-archive but open for general subscription.
2. Various diversity list discussions become heated. Some people (including …
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As I wrote over the weekend, the Google Highly Open Participation contest (intended to get high-school students involved in open source work) may be run again this winter. I say "may", because quite a bit of work needs to be done on the GHOP hosting app, Melange.
We in the …
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In the interests of social anthropology, I feel compelled to point Pythonistas at this fascinating discussion on the stdlib-sig on adding argparse to the Python stdlib. (Yeah, it's pretty much the only traffic that list got so far this month.)
Fascinating stuff. If there's a secret cabal out there masterminding …
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I'm looking for examples of frustratingly simple-yet-wrong Python code, suitable for an undergrad class to debug. I'd prefer things that don't rely on tricky features of Python (like shared list references), but rather code where subtly bad logic or program flow leads to bad behavior.
Comment below, or e-mail me …
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My wife and I were talking with my USDA collaborator about some possible chicken research, and I asked about access to animals. His response? "Chickens are not a rate limiting factor."
Did you know that 1 million chickens are slaughtered per hour, on average, in the US? Wow.
--titus
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