Beautiful Native Libraries written on Sunday, August 18, 2013 I'm obsessed with nice APIs. Not just APIs however, also in making the overall experience of using a library as good as possible. For Python there are quite a few best practices around by now but it feels like there is not really a lot of information available about how to properly structure a native library. What do I mean by native li

Be Careful About What You Dislike written on Saturday, November 5, 2016 The last few months I keep making the same observation over and over again in various different contexts: that whenever you are confronted with a very strong opinion about a topic, reasonable discussions about the topic often involve arguments that have long become outdated or are no longer strictly relevant to the conversatio

SQLAlchemy and You written on Tuesday, July 19, 2011 Without doubt are most new Python web programmers these days chosing the Django framework as their gateway drug to Python web development. As such many people's first experience with a Python ORM (or maybe an ORM altogether) is the Django one. When they are later switching to something else they often find SQLAlchemy unnecessarily complex and ha

Python's Hidden Regular Expression Gems written on Wednesday, November 18, 2015 There are many terrible modules in the Python standard library, but the Python re module is not one of them. While it's old and has not been updated in many years, it's one of the best of all dynamic languages I would argue. What I always found interesting about that module is that Python is one of the few dynamic lang