Nick Bastin

Sadly I have the flu, so I haven’t been able to go to PyOhio. Word on the mailing list is that things are going well, and I’m disappointed that I’m not there sprinting, speaking, and generally hanging out with other fun python developers, but infecting other people is regarded as bad form.. :-/
I’ve spent [...]

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In the process of unrolling some recursive algorithms to be iterative, I’ve started using collections.deque, and I’ve decided it’s my new favorite general-purpose python data structure. This wasn’t a hard decision – lists are the general utility collection type and they suck, so really anything ordered and mutable was probably going to be better [...]

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Catherine has arranged for a room block at the Blackwell Inn (which is right across from the conference location) for $109 a night, so grab rooms while they’re hot…
We still haven’t nailed down a specific location for the sprints yet, but they’ll either be at the hotel or at Knowlton (the main conference location). [...]

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