Ned Batchelder
Makefile help target
4 April
In a pull request today, I was struck again by the difficulty of providing a “help” target for Makefiles. The make command doesn’t natively have a way to see what targets are available, because the set is dynamic and large, so we are left to cobble things together ourselves. » more..
Is Python interpreted or compiled? Yes.
29 March
A common question: “Is Python interpreted or compiled?” Usually, the asker has a simple model of the world in mind, and as is typical, the world is more complicated. » more..
What’s in which Python 3.4–3.6?
22 March
This is the third in a series of summarizations of what’s in each release of Python. The first two were What’s in which Python 2.x? and What’s in which Python 3.0–3.3?. » more..
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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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- Pragmatic Unicode ·· how to stop the pain
- Python Names and Values ·· how assignment works
- Kindling projects ·· small projects for new programmers