The social contract of open source
Even though I gave a keynote with an accompanying blog post all about setting expectations for open source participation, I felt it was time to do another blog post to directly address the
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Unravelling `for` statements
As part of my series on Python's syntactic sugar, I am going to cover the for statement. As usual, I will be diving into CPython's C code, but understanding or even reading those
Unravelling assertions
In this post, as part of my series on Python's syntactic sugar, I'm going to cover assert statements. Now, the actual unravelling of the syntax for assert a, b is already given to
Unravelling the import statement
As part of my series on Python's syntactic sugar, I am going to cover import statements. This will include delving into the quirky interface of __import__()(although in actual code you should use
Unravelling boolean operations
As part of my series on Python's syntactic sugar, I am going to cover boolean operations: a or b and a and b. The semanticsA key thing to know about or and and