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Cracking passwords is getting easier 14 Feb 2013 | 05:52 pm
Not Python-related, but really worth reading. Why passwords have never been weaker — and crackers have never been stronger on ars technica.
Death Swamp 17 Jan 2013 | 06:24 pm
Recently a friend sent me this. I recognized it instantly, although I never knew that it had a name. There is a management technique called “death swamp” (or “death bog” or “fly paper”). It works this...
enum in Python 13 Aug 2012 | 03:02 am
Recently I was reading a post by Eli Bendersky (one of my favorite bloggers) and I ran across a sentence in which Eli says “It’s a shame Python still doesn’t have a functional enum type, isn’t it?” Th...
Python Decorators 30 Apr 2012 | 01:09 pm
In August 2009, I wrote a post titled Introduction to Python Decorators. It was an attempt to explain Python decorators in a way that I (and I hoped, others) could grok. Recently I had occasion to re...
Python Decorators 30 Apr 2012 | 09:09 am
In August 2009, I wrote a post titled Introduction to Python Decorators. It was an attempt to explain Python decorators in a way that I (and I hoped, others) could grok. Recently I had occasion to re...
Unicode – the basics 17 Mar 2012 | 02:06 am
An introduction to the basics of Unicode, distilled from several earlier posts. In the interests of presenting the big picture, I have painted with a broad brush — large areas are summarized; nits are...
Unicode – the basics 16 Mar 2012 | 09:06 pm
An introduction to the basics of Unicode, distilled from several earlier posts. In the interests of presenting the big picture, I have painted with a broad brush — large areas are summarized; nits are...
Python’s magic methods 9 Mar 2012 | 06:03 pm
Here are some links to documentation of Python’s magic methods, aka special methods, aka “dunder” (double underscore) methods. Rafe Kettler’s A Guide to Python’s Magic Methods ::—> http://www.rafeke...
Python’s magic methods 9 Mar 2012 | 12:03 pm
Here are some links to documentation of Python’s magic methods, aka special methods, aka “dunder” (double underscore) methods. Rafe Kettler’s A Guide to Python’s Magic Methods ::—> http://www.rafeke...
Gotcha — Mutable default arguments 15 Feb 2012 | 09:04 pm
Goto start of series Note: examples are coded in Python 2.x, but the basic point of the post applies to all versions of Python. There’s a Python gotcha that bites everybody as they learn Python. In ...
