At this point I've only written a few, relatively small programs with type hints. At times when doing this, I've wound up feeling that I was writing programs in a language that wasn't quite exactly Python (but obviously was closely related to it). What wa... (more…)

PyMOTW-3 is a series of articles written by Doug Hellmann to demonstrate how to use the modules of the Python 3 standard library. It is based on the original PyMOTW series, which covered Python 2.7. See About Python Module of the Week for details includi... (more…)

One of the special things about software engineering as a profession is the possibility of ars-poetic work: part of our work is building tools that target our own work; perhaps a few surgeons around the globe can design and meld their own scalpel, but for... (more…)

One of the cool tricks I came across was how to write a self-sufficient AWS Lambda function, the idea is to have your Lambda function installs its dependencies at runtime/require time, instead of having to redeploy it each time you add a new dependency. (more…)

It's a fairly common scenario to subscribe to a Rabbit queue and process messages before acknowledging receipt. The pika package for dealing with RabbitMQ in Py... (more…)