Good morning, sinners. Today we're going to figure out what the hell is going on inside a Python expression like:
>>> reduce(lambda a, x: a + [x], things, [])
(What things is doesn't matter too much, as long as it's an iterable. We'll look at a more specific ...
I've been trying to learn how to write a function in the Python that prints two words, only two, "Hello World." I've been trying for six months. And today, friends, I've done it.
I've read so many places that you can make print statements in the ...
I love broken things, unfinished things, breaking things, unfinishing things. Broken and unfinished things allow you to see the process in which they were created; their most intimate secrets are exposed.
A week ago, inside The Metropolitan Museum of Art, my love for broken things was realized. Just ...
__builtins__ vs __builtin__Seriously, what's the difference? When you first fire up the Python interpreter, __builtins__ is in your namespace for free:
>>> globals().keys()
['__builtins__', '__name__', '__doc__', '__package__']
>>> __builtins__
<module '__builtin__' (built-in)>
But it appears to be the __builtin__ module (singular)! If you:
>>> import __builtin__
>>> __builtin__ is __builtins__
True
Hrm. So they ...
import with accio: A Dive into Bootstrapping and Python's GrammarAt Hacker School, I've been building an alternate universe Python by overwriting builtin functions and statements with Harry Potter spells. This is a thing you can do at Hacker School!
Although this project started as a joke, I've quickly descended so deeply into Python internals that I've ...
As I wrote at length a couple weeks ago, this blog is hosted on GitHub Pages and generated by Pelican. Generally the integration between the two is quite blissful, except for managing two separate repositories - blog-source for my blog's source content, configuration files, and theme, and amygdalama.github.io ...
I rarely hear the question "How should I learn programming?" from individuals who are just beginning to write code. Instead I hear way more specific variants like:
These are not ...
Over the past week I've been dog-paddling through the ocean of misery that is migrating a blog from one host (WordPress) to another (GitHub Pages) and attempting to learn enough CSS and Jinja to handle setting up my site using Pelican. I have no experience with CSS! And my ...
In my first five months of using Python, I would create .py files and then execute them in the terminal, like the loyal follower of LPTHW that I am. While it's certainly necessary to be able to write Python scripts and execute them from the terminal, I've learned ...
I have to admit day 1 of Hacker School was fairly overwhelming for me. With so many amazing people to talk to and interesting projects to collaborate on I felt a bit like:
(Credit to Hacker School alumnus Alex Beaulne for finding this perfect gif.)
In an attempt to regain ...