Posts about python (old posts, page 1)

Karl Knechtel

Happy new year to all.

Today's post is about a folder on my desktop named dev. It's where I've kept (for many years, well into my Windows-using days, even into the era when I used SVN rather than Git) all my working copies for my own projects (and forks of others'), mostly Python code of course. (I'm not sure how I organized things at the time, but there are projects in there dating back to 2006.)

Python packaging: Why we can't have nice things
Part 1: The Old Refrain

This post is a start of a series I've planned about how packaging currently works in Python, what's wrong with it, and how to cope with the problems. But before I get into the meat of it, I want to talk about common complaints that don't resonate with me.

Timing

Two hundred and forty-one months ago, on March 5, 2023, a then-not-as-well-known man by the name of Guido van Rossum made the first commit of the timeit module in Python's standard library.

I had originally planned to write about this for the module's 19th anniversary - as my second post on this blog - before I got distracted from the project. (Long story short, I never actually abandoned the idea - it's just hard to get back into things sometimes.) I've now missed both that anniversary and the 20th. One might say my own sense of timing is not so great - but so it goes.