Recently, Ben James reached out to me for an interview, to appear on his Distinguished Devs interview series. You can listen to it right here: You can read Ben’s take on it as well, on Dev.to: What I learned from interviewing StackOverflow’…
So you are building an asyncio-based application, and like most production-quality systems, you need to log events throughout. Normally, you’d reach for the logging module, but the logging module uses blocking I/O when emitting records. The…
I was interviewed for the excellent Talk Python to Me podcast, in Episode #86 on the subject of Stack Overflow, Python, and my connection to both! If you run into a problem with some API or Python code what do you do to solve it? I personal…
Using a class decorator for applying a metaclass in both Python 2 and 3 When you want to create a class including a metaclass, making it compatible with both Python 2 and 3 can be a little tricky. The excellent six library provides you with…
Using a context manager to allow painless rewriting of files Whenever you need to process a file in-place, transforming the contents and writing it out again in the same location, you can reach out for the fileinput module and use its inpla…
Software architect, Python mentor & Consultant with a long history in serious web applications, database-driven and content management. I’m the top contributor on Stack Overflow for Python questions, ranked #5 overall and I was elected ♦ Co…
Software Architect and Python mentor Recently, Ben James reached out to me for an interview, to appear on his Distinguished Devs interview series. So you are building an asyncio-based application, and like most production-quality systems, y…
Software Architect and Python mentor Using ESI includes to cache Plone portlets separately. How to encode unicode codepoints in RTF documents using PyRTF. When IntIds go missing, the going gets tough. Specifically, plone.app.relations and r…