Published on: 01.12.2017 Intro I will show how to upload files to Dropbox from Python code. Why do I need this? Currently, I am only using WebFaction for all my web services and also as my private git server. I wanted to make an automatic backup of my git... (more…)

PEP 654 was authored by Irit Katriel, Yury Selivanov, and Guido van Rossum. This PEP is currently at the draft stage. The authors shared wh... (more…)

In this final part of the series, we’ll explore a trick to make the behaviour of a macro depend on whether it’s used as a statement or as part of an expression. Using that, we’ll make the python!{} macro more flexible to allow saving, reusing, and inspect... (more…)

Packaging Python has been a painful experience for long. The history of the various distribution that Python offered along the years is really bumpy, and both the user and developer experience has … (more…)

Background In 2020, when I was new to programming, I stumbled upon a course on functional programming. The link is no longer available, but I distinctly remember one assignment: implementing a concise JSON parser. Although I used JSON constantly in web de... (more…)