A developer details two performance optimizations for Unladen Swallow, a Python implementation, focusing on argument parsing and JIT compilation.
A positive review of the Python Essential Reference book, highlighting its coverage of syntax, libraries, and debugging tools.
Guide to writing Python decorators that preserve pickling and reflectivity, avoiding common closure pitfalls.
Analyzing Django's error messages by replicating common typos from a Rails tutorial comparison to see how helpful they are for debugging.
A Python tool for writing readable parallel code using map/reduce patterns with an easy switch to serial mode.
Explains an Unladen Swallow optimization for CPython, replacing METH_O/NOARGS with METH_FIXED to speed up calls to built-in functions with fixed arguments.
A developer explains their Python workflow using pip, virtualenv, and virtualenvwrapper to manage project dependencies and isolated environments.
A PyCon program committee member reflects on the talk selection process, reviewer biases, and shares excitement for upcoming conference talks.
An introduction to Unladen Swallow, a Google-funded project to speed up CPython using a JIT compiler built on LLVM.
A developer explains how to test a Django RSS feed importer by creating a threaded mock HTTP server using Python's threading.Condition.
A technical guide on parsing email attachments and body content from multipart emails using Python's email and StringIO modules.
Announcing the release of Django-filter 0.5, featuring a package name change to django_filters and new filter features.
Announcing pyvcs .2 release with new Subversion and Bazaar backends, plus bug fixes for the Mercurial backend.
Announcing pyvcs and django-vcs, open-source tools for abstracting and web-browsing version control systems, plus plans for a new Django project.
A rebuttal to a critical article about Python, defending its features like closures, generators, lambdas, and the C-API.
A guide for developers on setting up a development environment and contributing patches to the Mercurial version control system.
A developer shares slides and code examples from their talk on Django forms at the EuroDjangoCon 2009 conference.
A recap of a panel discussion on Object-Relational Mappers (ORMs) in Python, covering selection criteria and unanswered questions.
A personal recap of the 2009 PyCon conference, covering talks on Python development, frameworks like CherryPy, and tech discussions.
Announcing a Google Moderator page for submitting and voting on questions for a Python ORM panel at PyCon 2009.
