Hitting a new level of meta, I just wrote a decorator decorator for Django views.
The context here is that I needed to write some custom view decorators that gave me access to the request object, since the normal built-in decorators like user_passes_test only offer access to the request.user ...
I discovered today that Python’s True and False are actually constants—which means that their values can be changed. While this has been disallowed in Python 3, it still allows you to wreak some havoc in your—or someone else’s—Python 2 programs.
Despite being an Excel power user, I’m currently without Excel on my computer for the time being so for some data analysis I had to do I had to make do with Google Docs’ spreadsheets. While decent, and impressive for a web application, unfortunately it’s not great for ...
I’ve been experimenting with Rails a bit for the past couple weeks. This has been pretty exciting for me, as I’ve generally been much more of a Python developer and I’d never touched Ruby before, so it was very interesting to see a completely different approach to ...
Fellow Hacker Schooler Amy had a great post today on mutable default arguments in Python, a very typical Python “WAT”.
(If you haven’t seen the CodeMash 2012 WAT video, you should.)
In this case, Amy wrote about how unintuitively in Python, when creating a function with default arguments, those ...
While working through Clojure for the Brave and True, I came across an explanation of Clojure’s comp function and some basic implementations of versions of comp that take only two arguments or three arguments. The tutorial challenged me to try to completely re-implement comp to accept an arbitrary number ...
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