S.Lott-Software Architect

The Passive-Aggressive Programmer strikes again. A sad story of sadness. I tell everyone to stop using os.path and use pathlib . Everyone...

Two and a half examples of "Don't solve the problem I described. Provide the implementation I dream about." Can't Use En...

Got this in an email. "Python's multi-threading module seems not efficient because of the global interpreter lock?"  Yep. ...

https://sobolevn.me/2019/02/python-exceptions-considered-an-antipattern While eloquent and thorough, I remain unconvinced that this is a ...

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

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

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...