Ned Batchelder

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Tricky locals()

13 November

One of the perks of maintaining coverage.py is that you get some really interesting bug reports. Digging into them can be a good way to learn about some obscure corners of Python. » more..

I fixed Python!

4 November

About a month ago, I found a bad-behavior bug in the tokenize standard library module, and with help from Aron Griffis, submitted a patch to fix it. Yesterday was a Python bug day, and Ezio Melotti merged my change, so I have officially contributed to CPython! » more..

Multiple inheritance is hard

28 October

Multiple inheritance is hard, we all know it, but even after warning people about it myself, I found myself tripped up by it yesterday. All I wanted was a mixin for my unittest.TestCase class. » more..

Pizza.py

10 October

I've been organizing the Boston Python user group for a few years now, and I like it a lot. Except for ordering pizza. » more..

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Code

software for your use

▫ Aptus ·· a Mandelbrot set explorer
▫ coverage.py ·· for measuring Python code coverage
▫ hyphenate ·· for hyphenating words with the Liang/Knuth algorithm
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longer writings

▫ Stopping spambots with hashes and honeypots ·· no more CAPTCHAs
▫ Pragmatic Unicode ·· how to stop the pain
▫ A good thing about autism ·· a view from the trenches
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