1/ #Python factlet: random() gives you floats in the range 0.0 ≤ X < 1.0, but not all floats in that range are possible selections. For example, 0.05954861408025609 isn't a possible selection. (more…)

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This blog post was authored by Eleanor Boyd, 2021 Summer Intern for Python Tools for VS Code. Coming into an internship you never really know what to expect from your summer. What I definitely didn’t expect was that my whole summer would center around one... (more…)

Endless tick-tock generators. Contribute to pomponchik/metronomes development by creating an account on GitHub. (more…)

This post is an attempt to catalog some of my practices around testing Python projects. It's not meant to be treated as dogma- I anticipate I'll update this significantly over time. (more…)