The message at this year’s Tech for Good Summit was that as a society we face significant challenges, only by working together can we have an impact on those challenges….
Author: Dougie
Rainbows, decorators arguments & threads
Playing with Rainbow Hat I learned a few things about Python as a result I found out what a decorator is, the difference between args and kwargs and threads. I…
Python List Comprehension
I’ve been spending time with Python recently and am beginning to really like some of the language’s features. List comprehension creates a list by evaluating an expression on each item…
Using Threading rather than Thread
In an earlier post, I used Threads but the thread module in Python when I should be using threading. The documentation for threading says it builds upon the thread module (renamed _thread):…
Python’s with statement
Managing resources usually involves three steps – allocating, using, and releasing. You’re familiar with the try… finally pattern but Python also provides context managers.