My last post introduced the concept of X, a class which "absorbs" operations and behaves like a function. As many people pointed out, this was merely a syntactic alternative to lambda. You may like it, you may not. Now, after a rewrite, X can now... View Article
Readers, meet X. X is a class I wrote in Python as an alternative to using lambda. It has two main features: It acts as an identity function ( so X(3) == 3, etc. ) When performing operations on it, it returns a new class... View Article
Taking a short break from my artwork craze (but I promise more is to come), I reviewed some of the new features and changes in Python, brought by versions 2.6 and 3.0. There are many interesting features, but a very specific one caught my eye:... View Article
Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those! -- The Zen of Python (PEP 20) by Tim Peters In the quest for order and heirarchy in our code, namespaces are our chief weapon (along with fear and surprise). Namespaces come in... View Article