S.Lott-Software Architect

Rants on the daily grind of building software. This has been moved to https://slott56.github.io. Fix your bookmarks.

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Tuesday, February 12, 2019

On the uselessness of Enum -- wait, what?

Had a question about an enumerated set of constant values. "Where do I put these constants?" they asked. It was clear what they ...

Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Python Enhancement Proposal -- Floating an Idea

Consider the following code def max(m: int, n: int) -> int: if m >= n: return m elif n >= m: return n ...

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Eager and Lazy Properties

See this Dear Pythonista lazyweb: If I have a property spam and the attribute that backs it is _spam, what do we call that? The "ba...

Things that start badly

Today's Example of Starting Badly: Building HTML. The code has a super-simple email message with f"<html><body><...

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Read this: 10 Reasons to Learn Python in 2019

See 10 Reasons to Learn Python in 2019 . I want to dwell on #4 for a moment. The Python community actually has a Code of Conduct . We tr...

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Super-picky Writing Advice

There are patterns to bad writing. I'll give some examples based on a blog post I was sent. It's also based -- indirectly -- on some...

Tuesday, January 8, 2019

NumFocus and PyData

Videos are up from PyDataDC 2018. See all the PyData talks at PyDataTV on YouTube .

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