Sunday, April 10, 2022

Natural syntax for units in Python

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In the past week, there has been an interesting discussion on Python-ideas about Natural support for units in Python . As I have taught intr...
Tuesday, February 08, 2022

Friendly-traceback and IPython: update

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In my previous post , I mentioned that, unlike IPython, friendly/friendly-traceback included values of relevant objects in a traceback.  As ...
Friday, February 04, 2022

Friendly-traceback: trying to stay ahead of IPython

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UPDATE: Alex Hall pointed out that IPython can display the values of variables in the highlighted sections using %xmode verbose . He also su...
Wednesday, January 05, 2022

Python 101: enabling a restricted subset of Python

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I decided to submit to the the Ideas category of Discuss-Python a proposal which I have summarized as follows: Summary: I propose that a new...
Tuesday, December 28, 2021

New milestone for friendly: version 0.5

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 Friendly (previously at 0.4.41) and friendly-traceback (previously at 0.4.111) are now at version 0.5. The joint documentation for both pro...
Saturday, November 20, 2021

Friendly-traceback en español

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 Friendly and Friendly-traceback are now partially available in Spanish thanks to the work of Mrtín René (https://github.com/martinvilu). Yo...
Saturday, October 23, 2021

Forgot to set up a custom exception hook? Perhaps it is not too late.

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There are many custom exception hook that seek to improve upon the standard one from Python. The very first one is Python's cgitb modul...