In Outliving the Great Variable Shortage, Tim Ottinger invokes Curly’s Law:

A variable should mean one thing, and one thing only. It should not mean one thing in one circumstance, and carry a different value from a different domain some other time. It should…

TCP implementations vulnerable to Denial of Service

A young programming language for machine learning is on the rise and could be soon gunning for Python.

Lesser-known but idiomatic pandas features for those already comfortable with Pandas' basic functionality and concepts.

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Programming language bites its tongue to be more inclusive

Regular expressions can make it easier for a programmer to work in certain situations, but they can also complicate things if you use them recklessly not analyzing the situation in which they’ll be used. In this article you can find out how to work with regular…

Speaker: Brett Slatkin

As programs gain complexity, it becomes harder to add features and fix bugs. Reorganizing code is an effective way to make programs more manageable. This talk will show you Pythonic ways to do the most imporant ""refactorings"": Extract…

In this talk, we share our strategy to adopt asyncio and the tools we built: including common helper library for asyncio testing/debugging/profiling, static an…

Speaker: David Beazley

So, what happens when you lock a Python programmer in a secret vault containing 1.5 TBytes of C++ source code and no internet connection? Find out as I describe how I used Python as a secret weapon of "discovery" in an epic legal battle.…

Speaker: Ned Batchelder

Big-O is a computer science technique for analyzing how code performs as data gets larger. It's a very handy tool for the working programmer, but it's often shrouded in off-putting mathematics.

In this talk, I'll teach you what…