Brett Cannon
Python core developer. Works on Python at Microsoft/Azure Data Group. Tall, snarky Canadian.
Introducing Which Film
For those times when you can't agree on what movie to watch
What I'm announcing
Today I'm happy to announce the public unveiling of Which Film! I'll discuss how the site came about and what drives it, but I thought I would first explain what it does: it's a website to help you choose what movie you and your family/friends should watch together. What you do is you go to the . . .
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Why pathlib.Path doesn't inherit from str in Python
Or, implicit compatibility is usually not a good thing
Over on python-ideas a discussion has broken out about somehow trying to make p'/some/path/to/a/file return an instance of pathlib.Path. This led to a splinter discussion as to why pathlib.Path doesn't inherit from str? I figured instead of burying my response to this question in the thread I'd blog about it to try and explain one . . .
Posted in: programmingpython
How to pitch Python 3 to management
Or, the business case for moving to Python 3
[This blog post has been sitting as a draft for months, and I'm finally finishing while at home sick; sorry if that makes it a little less coherent compared to my other posts]
Over on our Python team at Microsoft blog, one of my teammates wrote a blog post showing that project releases on PyPI within a single month will begin to . . .
Posted in: programmingpython
How the heck does async/await work in Python 3.5?
Or, generators let you do neat stuff
Being a core developer of Python has made me want to understand how the language generally works. I realize there will always be obscure corners where I don't know every intricate detail, but to be able to help with issues and the general design of Python I feel like I should try and understand its core semantics and how things work under . . .
Posted in: programmingpython
Why `print` became a function in Python 3
After writing my post on why Python 3 exists which included an explanation about the most common question/complaint about why Python 3 forced textual and binary data into separate types, I heard from people about the second most common question/complaint about Python 3: why did we make print a function?
Who can do what?
The . . .
Posted in: programmingpython
Where are we in the Python 3 transition?
Or, how the Kübler-Ross model aptly applies to Python 3
The Kübler-Ross model outlines the stages that one goes through in dealing with death:
- Denial
- Anger
- Bargaining
- Depression
- Acceptance
This is sometimes referred to as the five stages of grief.Some have jokingly called them the five stages of software development. I think it actually matches the . . .
Posted in: programmingpython
Stop using Python 2.6 please
Or, try not to let RHEL/CentOS default installations hold you back
Python 2.6 has been around for over 7 years, first released in 2008 and last released in 2013 (as shown by the nice image provided by Fluent Python on Twitter and used with permission). It's unsupported software at this point as the Python development team only supports a feature release of Python with bugfix releases until the . . .
Posted in: programmingpython
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