As you probably know, the GIL stands for the Global Interpreter Lock, and its job is to make the CPython interpreter thread-safe. The GIL allows... (more…)

Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed. - tornadoweb/tornado... (more…)

Python has the wonderful package for recording logs called logging. You can find it in the standard library. Many developers think that it is overcomplicated and not pythonic. In this post I will try… (more…)

The challenge Write a function that, given a string of text (possibly with punctuation and line-breaks), returns an array of the top-3 most occurring words, in descending order of the number of occurrences. Assumptions: A word is a string of letters (A to... (more…)

The conflict between subclassing and composition is as old as object-oriented programming. The latest crop of languages like Go or Rust prove that you don’t need subclassing to successfully write code. But what’s a pragmatic approach to subclassing in Pyt... (more…)