Skip to main content

Janusworx

Posts about daily-programming (old posts, page 1)

Atom feed RSS feed

Programming, Day 2

Mario Jason Braganza

Worked a little bit more on the blog yesterday. Nothing worked out though Maybe if this post, publishes, atleast one tiny bit might

Programming, Day 1

Mario Jason Braganza

Lost my May posts.
So I don’t know how many days I’ve lost.
But it’s been atleast three days of hectic work at building the blog.

So I’ll count them as day 1 and start over again!

Numbers in Python

Mario Jason Braganza

Or atleast my understanding of them.1

In Python, numbers are not really a single object type, but a category of similar types.2

They include - Integer and Floating point objects - Complex numbers - Decimal: Fixed Precision Objects - Fractions - Sets - Booleans - Built-in functions (math, random)

  1. Post subject to revision as my understanding changes over time ↩

  2. Lutz, Mark. Learning Python (5th Ed) ↩

Do You PEP?

Mario Jason Braganza

Short new series for me. Quick and Dirty Programming Posts They’ll be tagged qdpp. They’ll be raw, error prone and mostly works in progress.

A few reasons - to help me write for a few minutes (publicly) daily. I’ve realised slow and steady is a good way to build a body of work, (Godin, Kushal). Even if the beginning is slow and shitty. - to save myself searching the web for stuff I need to have handy. - these are primarily for me, and me alone. If they help you as well, that’s a bonus!

Let’s start with PEP.

I’ve learnt that to learn anything well, it’s best to learn from the source. Go to the well. Don’t read about the Black Swan, or try to figure out from blogs what Antifragility is. Go read the darned Incerto! So when it comes to programming, I should do the same.

use-the-source-luke1

And everytime I learn something new with Python, I’m referred to a PEP as the source.

  • When is Python 3.7 out? Check the PEP.
  • What on God’s green earth are docstrings? Check the PEP.
  • Will PyPI crumble under its own weight? Or will there be redundant options? Check the PEP.
  • How do you write Python so that it’s comprehensible? Readable? Is there a style guide of sorts? Check the PEP.
  • A short treatise on what Python is about? Its Zen if you will? Check the PEP.
  • What is a PEP? Go, check the PEP!

So, a PEP (Python Enhancement Proposal) is a design document, - providing information to the Python community, - or describing a new feature for Python or its processes or environment. They’re worked on, one itty bitty version at a time. You can see how they come alive and grow here. They describe standards, share information, and describe processes on things other than code too (like PEP-8)

And as to why, the very first one explains it much better than I ever could.

So if you must know, where the Python rabbit hole conclusively ends, it most probably does in a PEP.

  1. Image source: https://adastraerrans.com/archivos/use-the-source-luke.png ↩