Links tagged “python”
233 links, newest first.
python.org
The PEP that introduced generators and the yield statement to Python, with their specification, rationale and the resumable-function semantics they imply.
lucumr.pocoo.org
Armin Ronacher's project list — Flask, Jinja, Werkzeug, Pygments, Sphinx, Click and others, alongside his commercial and game industry work.
impressive.sourceforge.net
FAQ for Impressive, the Python program that plays PDF and image slideshows with transitions and highlighting — multi-monitor setups, video playback and driver issues.
peak.telecommunity.com
Reference manual for setuptools, the distutils extension adding dependency declarations, egg building and easy_install to Python packaging.
youtube.com
Alex Martelli's Google Developers Day talk on design patterns in Python, arguing that patterns can only be studied in the context of the language they get implemented in.
linuxgazette.net
Tutorial on Python's threading module, covering what worker threads buy you, how to spawn and synchronise them, and where the interpreter's limits bite.
fuhm.net
Argues that Python's super() is a trap in multiple-inheritance hierarchies and that explicit superclass calls are usually the safer choice.
gnosis.cx
David Mertz's book on Python string handling, regular expressions and parsers, with the full text, code samples and errata available free online.
code.activestate.com
Recipe declaring a Python property from a single decorated function whose nested getter and setter are captured by a trace hook, instead of returning locals() by hand.
docs.python.org
Chapter of the Python language reference covering objects, types and the standard type hierarchy, and every special method a class can define to customise its behaviour.
nongnu.org
Deprecated index page for Fabric, now carrying nothing but a notice pointing at the project's current site, fabfile.org.
