This week will be my last as the Director of Infrastructure at the Python Software Foundation and my last week as a staff member. Supporting the mission of this organization with my labor has been unbelievable in retrospect and I am filled with gratitude ... (more…)

Importing files for local development in Python can be cumbersome. In this article, I summarize some possibilities for the Python developer. (more…)

Sometimes the Pythonic way to solve a problem changes over time. As Python has evolved, so has the Pythonic way to count list items. Let’s look … (more…)

Traditional approaches to string matching such as the Jaro-Winkler or Levenshtein distance measure are too slow for large datasets. Using TF-IDF with N-Grams... (more…)

Coroutine... (more…)