-
Recent Posts
- Workaround for flask/babel/sphinx bug on Python 3+
- enum in Python
- Python Decorators
- Unicode – the basics
- Python’s magic methods
- Gotcha — Mutable default arguments
- Unicode for dummies — Encoding
- How to post source code on WordPress
- Python3 pickling
- Yet Another Lambda Tutorial
- Read-Ahead and Python Generators
- In Java, what is the difference between an abstract class and an interface?
- Newline conversion in Python 3
- Why import star is a bad idea
- Learning Subversion: the mystery of .svn
- How to fix a programmable Northgate keyboard
- Northgate keyboard repair
- An alternative to string interpolation
- A Globals Module pattern
- An Arguments Container pattern
- A Globals Class pattern for Python
- How to open a web browser from Python
- Command-line syntax: some basic concepts
- Unicode for dummies – just use UTF-8
- Unicode Beginners Introduction for Dummies Made Simple
- Multiple constructors in a Python class
- How do I reverse a string in Python 3?
- What’s wrong with use cases?
- Python Packages
- Diagram arrangements
- Python & Java: A Side-by-Side Comparison
- Static vs. dynamic typing of programming languages
- Debugging in Python
- Introduction to Python Decorators
- Gotcha — forgetting parentheses
- Gotcha — backslashes in Windows filenames
- Gotcha — backslashes are escape characters
- Python Gotchas
Categories
- Decorators (2)
- Java and Python (3)
- Keyboards (2)
- Miscellaneous (2)
- Moving to Python 3 (3)
- Python & JSD (1)
- Python debugger (1)
- Python features (9)
- Python Globals (3)
- Python gotchas (5)
- Software Development (2)
- Subversion (1)
- Unicode (4)
Category Archives: Java and Python
In Java, what is the difference between an abstract class and an interface?
This post is about Java, and has nothing to do with Python. I’ve posted it here so that it can be available to other folks who might find it useful. (And because I don’t have a Java blog!) In Java, what … Continue reading
Posted in Java and Python
14 Comments
Python & Java: A Side-by-Side Comparison
I wrote this little piece a long time ago — it was last updated in May 2007. In 2009 I moved it from my website to this blog. At this point I consider it an historical artifact, in the sense … Continue reading
Posted in Java and Python
77 Comments
Static vs. dynamic typing of programming languages
Updated 2010-10-20 — added a bit more information about Boo’s type inferencing. Updated 2012-04-08 — This post is an appendix to a post comparing Java and Python. Some comments on this post are actually comments on that other post. There … Continue reading
Posted in Java and Python
43 Comments
Python Conquers The Universe 