Ned Batchelder
Regex affordances
18 April
A tour of some real code showing little-used power features of the Python regular expression module. » more..
Nedflix
3 April
Well, Anthropic and I were not a good fit, though as predicted it was an experience. I’ve started a new job on the Python language team at Netflix. » more..
Human sorting improved
29 March
When sorting strings, you’d often like the order to make sense to a person. That means numbers need to be treated numerically even if they are in a larger string. » more..
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Code
software I made
- Dinghy ·· for digesting GitHub activity
- Scriv ·· for managing changelogs
- coverage.py ·· for measuring Python code coverage
Text
words I wrote
- Python Names and Values ·· how assignment works
- Kindling projects ·· small projects for new programmers
- Pragmatic Unicode ·· how to stop the pain