pre-commit checks are like prenups. They run before you commit, get the dirty stuff out of the way, and may even save your relationship(s) in the long run. The difference is that pre-commit checks are written by programmers and not lawyers, so they are a lot...
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Python’s New Structural Pattern Matching!
It’s finally happened, after years of complaining and told “it will never happen”, I got my darn switch statement! And honestly, calling it only a “switch” statement is really underselling it. It’s much more powerful than most people will ever use! You might have already heard...
Continue reading...Keep Windows from going to sleep, no power settings needed!
Say you have a long running process that you let go overnight, only to come back the next morning and realize “Oh no, only an hour into it, my computer went to sleep!”. Thanks to some Windows internals, it’s possible to make it realize there is...
Continue reading...Interprocess Communications
Dealing with communications across programs, processes or even threads can be a real pain in the patella. Each situation usually calls for something slightly different and has to work with a limited set of options. On top of that, a lot of tutorials I see are people...
Continue reading...ThreadPools explained – In the deep end
Thread and Multiprocessing Pools are an underused feature of Python. In my opinion, they are the easiest way to dip your feet into concurrency, and yet still the method I use most often. They allow you to easily offload CPU or I/O bound tasks to a...
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