Ned Batchelder / is on Nostr

Python, software, coverage.py, typography, juggling, Boston, autism (dad). Laughing at the world doesn't mean I don't take it seriously. He/him.

Home: https://nedbatchelder.com
GitHub: https://github.com/nedbat
Work: Full-time

Last Notes

2024-08-05 14:31:39

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How do you separate them?

2024-08-05 13:45:22

It's a continuing mystery to me why our culture holds investors and Wall Street in such high esteem considering they prove over and over how dumb they are.

2024-06-16 22:14:56

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the change from 1.x to 2.x indicates there are breaking changes in the API.

2024-06-16 10:59:20

https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202406/math_factoid_of_the_day_62.html #geometry

2024-06-12 11:05:16

Is there a more 2024 changelog entry than this, from a *terminal emulator*?
> This release adds some safety valves to eliminate the risk of private information leaving the terminal via the AI endpoints.

2024-06-06 13:36:11

Mostly you shouldn't subclass #Python built-in types. But if you do, dict subclasses can define __missing__: it's called when a key is missing. Instead of hiding a dict in a function as a cache, how about hiding a function in a dict!? A Fibonacci dictionary:
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/569/940/016/847/926/original/4e2808208d8b2683.png

2024-06-04 10:53:57

Are you sure you know how #Python decorators work? This should be no problem! 😈 🤯 🤓
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/557/977/435/335/953/original/36f84e0382078b7d.png

2024-05-28 18:29:27

New blog post: One way to fix #Python circular imports.
There are better ways, but sometimes simply changing the form of the import statements can untangle the problem:
https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202405/one_way_to_fix_python_circular_imports.html

2024-05-24 22:35:57

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I'm running the test suite against nightly builds of 3.14: https://github.com/nedbat/coveragepy/actions/runs/9220268850/job/25366917607

2024-05-24 21:32:31

The joy of trying to be on the cutting edge of #Python:
HTTPError: 400 Bad Request from https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/
'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14' is not a valid classifier.