I've been a code monkey (well, I call myself a code-gorilla: same genus as monkeys, only we don't constantly fiddle with things as much; are generally bigger & slower; and don't get paid peanuts) for most of my adult life, and there are two things that have always struck me:

Those of a certain age, or maybe just old-roleplayers, will fondly remember the masses of tables where the rows were banded into sets of three.... mine was from AD&D (3rd edition)

For those of you who managed to avoid such perils.... see the image below.

Turns out to be quite easy to do, too:

I attended PyCon in Cardiff last week, on the 13th and 14th of September. This is a selection of my notes during my time there, highlighting the talks and discussions I found useful.

Following on from my article about pip installing development code, I thought I'd also share the various ways of installing from a get server.

I had reason to add a timestamp file to an archive - a nice simple file, with the time of creating as a single line, so nothing complicated..... but this is python, and there are more solutions out there than I've had hot dinners (well, maybe not - but certainly more than I've had Vindaloo curries.)

None of them worked for me.

I don't think that my archive was an in-memory "file"

This does: