S.Lott-Software Architect

Well, it was surprising to me. And it should not have been a surprise. This is something I need to recognize as a standard confusion. An...

Folks who don't use Python regularly -- the folks in TechOps, for example -- are acutely aware that the Python 3 language is "diffe...

Get Packt's Python Essentials . I think it covers a large number of important topics. Central to this is Python 3.4. The book covers...

I remain captivated by the ideals of Literate Programming . My fork of PyLit ( https://github.com/slott56/PyLit-3) coupled with Sphinx see...

Let me gripe about this for a moment. sys.exit() The use case for this function is limited. Very, very limited. Every place that this ...

Read this:  http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html . I was originally focused on "beauty". Clearly, good design is beautiful. Isn...

Someone told me they weren't yet ready to write "serious code." They needed to spend more time doing something that's not ...