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...
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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...
Continue reading...Is it easier to ask for forgiveness in Python?
Is Python more suited for EAFP[note]Easier to Ask for Forgiveness than Permission[/note] or LBYL[note] Look Before You Leap[/note] coding styles? It has been debated across message boards, email chains, stackoverflow, twitter and workplaces. It’s not as heated as some other battles; like how spaces are better...
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Boring Background I have always had in interest in making a local photo organization tool, that supports albums and tagging the way I want to do it. Maybe down the line allowing others to connect and use it too. So I started on one a few...
Continue reading...Python Decorators
Often times in python there comes a need to have multiple functions act in a similar manner. It could be anything from making sure that similar functions output the right type of result, they all log when they are called or all report exceptions in the...
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