Ned Batchelder
Getting Started Testing with pytest
20 February
Next week I am presenting Getting Started Testing: pytest edition at Boston Python (event page). » more..
Re-using my presentations
13 February
Yesterday I got an email saying that someone in Turkey had stolen one of my presentations. The email included a YouTube link. » more..
sys.getsizeof is not what you want
9 February
This week at work, an engineer mentioned that they were looking at the sizes of data returned by an API, and it was always coming out the same, which seemed strange. It turned out the data was a dict, and they were looking at the size with sys.getsizeof. » more..
Color palette tools
15 January
Two useful sites for choosing color palettes, both from map-making backgrounds. They both consider qualitative, sequential, and diverging palettes as different needs, which I found insightful. » more..
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Code
software I made
- Aptus ·· a Mandelbrot set explorer
- coverage.py ·· for measuring Python code coverage
- hyphenate ·· for hyphenating words with the Liang/Knuth algorithm
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words I wrote
- Python Names and Values ·· how assignment works
- Kindling projects ·· small projects for new programmers
- Pragmatic Unicode ·· how to stop the pain