Introducing deepmerge. It's a library designed to provide simple controls around a merging system for basic Python data structures like dicts and lists.
It provides a few common cases for merging (like always merge + override, or raise an exception):
from deepmerge import always_merger, merge_or_raise
base = {
"a": ["b"],
"c": 1 ...Long term maintenance of a web application, will, at some point, require changes. Code grows with the functionality it serves, and an increase in functionality is inevitable.
It is impossible to foresee what sort of changes are required, but there are changes that are common and are commonly ...
If you've worked with tornado, you may have encountered a traceback of a somewhat bewildering error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tornado/ioloop.py", line 832, in start
fd_obj, handler_func = self._handlers[fd]
KeyError: 16
A few other people have been confused ...
more ...In 2016, I bought a Steam Link, allowing me to play games on my TV without having to lug a whole physical machine over. The main requirement of Steam Link is the link and the PC on the same network: this allows encoded streaming from the PC to the link ...
more ...A majority of my career has been spent on building web services in Python. Specifically, internal ones that have minimal or no UIs, and speak REST (or at least are rest-ish).
With each new service, I found myself re-implementing work to make user-friendly REST APIs:
One of the most interesting artifacts of most programming languages using English conventions is variable naming. Today I contend that:
Consider how you would specify that a room is for guests in English, or a car is designed to be sporty. In both ...
When it comes to reaching language proficiency, vocabulary is important. To reach proficiency as quickly as possible, the choice of vocabulary is important.
I'm going to explain my approach a bit.
Vocabulary from a spoken standpoint requires quick recall without a reference, which is really ...
Let's start with a disclaimer: I'm not a teacher, and I have no experience in teaching languages. I've been trying to learn quite a few though. Everything stated here is in my own, anecdotal case study opinion.
If the goal is some level or proficiency, I feel ...
more ...Test Classes don't work as a test structure.
It's worth clarifying what I mean by the test class. I'm speaking specifically about the following structure of an test:
About Yusuke Tsutsumi
I work at Zillow. I focus on tools and services for developer
productivity, including build and testing.
My other interests include programming language design, game development,
and learning languages (the non-programming ones).