The Third Bit

Alex Martelli is now at Google; here’s a video of him talking about design patterns in Python (notes available as PDF).  I’ll post the second part when it appears.

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Barry has been part of the Python development team for yonks; this article is the first of two (or more) that describe how Python is supposed to manage memory, and how to find out what’s actually going on. Good debugging tips for systems geeks…

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An extensive annotated list of testing tools for Python — lots of useful links, including many I hadn’t seen before.

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This post titled “Ruby vs. Python – why no-one should care” resonates. The argument is that the languages are similar enough that there’s really nothing to choose between them, so stick with whichever you learn first. Now Erlang, on the other hand — I’ve always wondered why there isn’t real buzz around it in the open source world…

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