How to use lru_cache for fun and profit

What happens when you mix coroutines with Abstract Base Classes?

Learning asyncio

Python Tip of the Day - Merging Two Dicts

Python 3.6 introduced a new way to format strings. They're really f-ing cool. Let's see why.

Using Python's Simple HTTP Server for fun and profit (and quickly sharing files)

So I was reviewing a coworkers pull request today and saw something I hadn't seen in Python before. As it turns out you can have multiple if clauses on a list comprehension. For example:

>>> [v for v in range(50) if v % 2 == 0 if v > 10]  # all even numbers …

Oftentimes you just want to try out something related to logging in the REPL, or in a hacky script.  Wading through the docs on the logging module is this painful exercise in reading about handlers and formatters and other stuff you don't care about.

The simplest way to just get …

Coming from a jUnit background, one of the things I always missed with the vanilla Python unitttest library was parameterized tests.  Oftentimes when writing unit tests for a particular unit you find yourself writing effectively the same test over and over again, but with different inputs. Wouldn't it be nice …

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 …