After a very long porting journey, Launchpad is finally running on Python 3 across all of our systems. I wanted to take a bit of time to reflect on why my emotional responses to this port differ so much from those of some others who’ve done large ports, s... (more…)

GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects. (more…)

Make a full commandline application, without any of the setup.py hassle! (more…)

I recently finished teaching an introductory Python course as part of the Youth Remote Learning project. The intended audience was 6th-8th graders and consisted of 6 classes, each lasting 30 minutes. (more…)

This post will be a guide to fuzzy matching with Python. We'll cover the textdistance package, which implements many different fuzzy matching algorithms. (more…)