Unravelling `finally` and `else` from `try` statements
In the last post of my syntactic sugar series, I showed how you can get away with not having elif and else clauses on an if statement. It turns out you can use
Unravelling `elif`/`else` from `if` statements
While I won't be attempting to unravel if statements entirely as part of my blog series on Python's syntactic sugar, I will be attempting to partially unravel them by showing how you don't
Unravelling `break` and `continue`
I have previously unravelled for loops, and so the concept of looping has already come up in this blog post series of removing the syntactic sugar from Python. But one aspect of looping
A reverse chronology of some Python features
I occasionally hear people lament that Python is "bloated", "too big", "going enterprise", or some other phrasing to suggest there was once an "ideal" version of Python that had less bloat and was
Selecting a programming language can be a form of premature optimization
Have you ever been told that Python couldn't be used for a project because it wouldn't be fast enough? I have, and I find it a bit frustrating as big banks, YouTube, Instagram,