As many people have doubtless read, PyCon '08 has announced the tutorial sessions. This year, Grig and I are doing a workshop-tutorial on testing rather than a teaching-tutorial; what this means is that our tutorial will focus on actually applying testing tools effectively to your source code.
We're billing this …
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Steve Yegge recently wrote a long article, "Code's Worst Enemy", about how "many lines of code" causes problems in projects.
That's obviously pretty silly. To see why, let's examine a little project I've recently started; conservatively, I estimate that it incorporates well over a million lines of code:
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Brett Cannon notes that GHOP is working out well, and muses about the future of the CPython test infrastructure (among other things). This is something I'm interested in as well (guess where all those testing tasks in GHOP came from? ;) and I've been confused, if not frustrated, by the apparent …
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Andrew Binstock hits the nail perfectly on the head with his post, Beautiful Code vs Readable Code.
--titus
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Matt Harrison's post, Gnome devs too lazy for python?, and the linked post by Thomas Vander Stichele strongly typed, are both really entertaining and illuminating.
I preserve them here for my own reference.
--titus
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So, the Google Highly Open Participation Contest is going quite well for Python, with about 25 additions/reworkings of core CPython documentation and tests and dozens of contributions to other projects.
One of the really unique opportunities that GHOP offers for the Python community is being underutilized, however, and that …
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My future colleague, Bill Punch at MSU, is teaching Python to intro CS students. He asks (slightly edited):
In C++, you can write multiple constructors, each one taking a different type and/or number of arguments. Let's say we are writing a RationalNumber class. I could write 2 constructors:
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