It seems a recurring complaint that we’re too aggressive on cleaning Python 2 up from packages. Why remove it if (package’s) upstream still supports py2? Why remove it when it still works? Why remove it when somebody’s ready to put some work to keep it... (more…)

There is a coming boom in tech financing and accelerated growth in semiconductor hardware and programming software, writes Neil Newman – who is off to learn Python. (more…)

The mmgroup package is a python implementation of Conway’s construction [Con85] of the monster group \(\mathbb{M}\). In mathematics the monster group \(\mathbb{M}\) is the largest sporadic finite simple group. The group \(\mathbb{M}\) has order... (more…)

I find blockchain fascinating because it extends open source software development to open source + state. This seems to be a genuine/exciting innovation in computing paradigms; We don’t just get to share code, we get to share a running computer, and anyon... (more…)

Python makes it easy to write functions. For example, I can write: def hello(name): return f'Hello, {name}!' I can then run the function with: hello('world') which will then, not surprisingly, return the string 'Hello, world'... (more…)