I've written in the past somewhat opaquely about certain programming languages and my complaints about them. One that I'm not afraid to complain about by name is Python. You can look in enough of my old posts to see this pattern keeps coming up. It... (more…)

I come from a functional programming background, so I a lot of love for functions and so-called anonymous functions or lambdas. However, I have realised that I don't make use of Python's lambda syntax... (more…)

This post will talk about three different packages to read word documents with Python, including docx2txt, docx, and docx2python. (more…)

Less than a year ago, I was in San Quentin State Prison serving a life sentence. (more…)

If you work with JSON regularly (90% of Python developers I suspect) you might appreciate the print_json function just landed in Rich v10.9.0 If you call this function with a string, Rich will decode the string, reformat it, and print it to the console wi... (more…)