Bio and Publications

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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

When to choose Python over Java and vice versa ??: A Very Silly Question

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The correct answer is: It Doesn't Matter . In spite of this. (A) The question gets asked. And worse. (B) It gets answered. And p...
Friday, October 25, 2013

Mac OS X 10.9 "Mavericks" Crashes Python -- Patch Available

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I upgraded to Mac OS X 10.9 "Mavericks" today. Python 3.2.4 crashed in odd places. Not all the time. But help() stopped working...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

Required Reading for everyone who said "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

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http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/64740079543/how-to-lose-172-222-a-second-for-45-minutes Here an important lesson. Code Rot is Rea...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Literate Programming: PyLit3

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I've revised PyLit to work with Python3. See  https://github.com/slott56/PyLit-3 The code seems to pass all the unit tests. The ch...
Thursday, October 3, 2013

Literate Programming and PyLit

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Even though I wrote a literate programming tool ( PyWeb ) I slowly came to realize that it's not very good. Mostly, I followed the Web...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Introduction to Programming: iBook Edition for Python 3.2

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That was challenging. I rewrote almost all of my Introduction to Programming book into an iBook. Trimmed it down. Refocused it. Changed fr...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

iWeb File Extract and XML Iterators

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Once upon a time, Apple offered iBlog. Then they switched to iWeb. Then they abandoned that market entirely. That leaves some of us with c...