So I'm currently on holiday and also between jobs (had my last day at old job last week, and first day at new gig is next week), which means of course what am I doing but spending some time learning some tech that's fun & buzzwordy.

Right now it seems like …

How did I not ever discover git bisect before today? Git bisect allows you to identify a particular commit which breaks a build, even after development has continued past that commit. So for example, say you:

• Commit some code which (unknowing to you) happens to break the build
• You then …

The other day I was adding the rich comparison methods (the ones for operator overloading) to a class I had defined. Like many Python programmers before me I wondered "why is it that if I define a method for equality, I still have to define a not-equal method?" and "if …

I often stumble across and use a number of useful tools for creating Python code. Thought I'd barf out a blog post documenting a few of them so that my future self will be able to find this info again if need be. :)

coverage.py

(http://nedbatchelder.com/code/coverage …

I was responding to an incredibly detailed answer on StackOverflow on Python metaclasses , when I wrote the following on my whiteboard:

I thought this was clever, and gave the (I thought clever) response on StackOverflow which read:

I read this and think of the famous "There are lies, damned lies …

So I have a class that inherits from HTMLParser, and I want to call the super class init (the __init__ of HTMLParser), I would think I should do:

class MyParser(HTMLParser):
    def __init__(self):
        super(MyParser, self).__init__()

But this causes a problem:

myparser = MyParser()

Traceback (most recent call last …