Only Python
This blog deals almost exclusively with my Python coding activities.
Thursday, October 27, 2022
Better NameError messages for Python
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Python 3.11 is barely out and already the 3.12 alpha has some improvements for NameError messages. I suspect that these will be backported t...
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
pandas' SettingWithCopyWarning: did I get it right?
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I am just beginning to learn pandas and am looking to provide some automated help. From what I read, it appears that SettingWithCopyWarning...
Monday, September 19, 2022
New milestone: friendly/friendly-traceback version 0.6 (and why not 1.0)
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Just a few minutes ago, @isidentical tweeted that PyPy 3.9 had implemented the new enhanced tracebacks that are going to be part of cPython ...
Friday, June 17, 2022
friendly_idle is done!
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friendly_idle is done! I've found a better solution for the remaining issue I had mentioned in the previous blog post. I also found a fi...
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
Friendly IDLE
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friendly_idle is now available. This is just a quick announcement. Eventually I plan to write a longer blog post explaining how I use impo...
Saturday, June 11, 2022
Nicer arithmetic with Python
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Beginning programmers are often surprised by floating point arithmetic inaccuracies. If they use Python, many will often write posts saying ...
Friday, May 13, 2022
Python 🐍 fun with emojis
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At EuroSciPy in 2018, Marc Garcia gave a lightning talk which started by pointing out that scientific Python programmers like to alias ever...
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