Friendly Idle

friendly_idle  is now available.  This is just a quick announcement. Eventually I plan to write a longer blog post explaining how I use impo... | Continue reading


@aroberge.blogspot.com | 2 years ago

Natural Syntax for Units in Python

In the past week, there has been an interesting discussion on Python-ideas about Natural support for units in Python . As I have thought int... | Continue reading


@aroberge.blogspot.com | 2 years ago

Friendly-traceback: trying to stay ahead of IPython

UPDATE: Alex Hall pointed out that IPython can display the values of variables in the highlighted sections using %xmode verbose . He also su... | Continue reading


@aroberge.blogspot.com | 2 years ago

Friendly-traceback will have a new name

tl; dr: I plan to change the name from friendly_traceback to friendly . | Continue reading


@aroberge.blogspot.com | 3 years ago

Python's tug of war between beginner-friendly and advanced features

Python is my favourite programming language. Since I discovered it in 2004, programming in Python became my favourite hobby. I've tried to l... | Continue reading


@aroberge.blogspot.com | 3 years ago

Pydeps: A Useful Program

A few weeks ago, I was doing some refactoring of Friendly-traceback and had some minor difficulty in avoiding the creation of circular impor... | Continue reading


@aroberge.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

A Tiny Python Exception Oddity

Today, while working on Friendly-traceback ( improved documentation !) as I have been doing a lot recently, I came into an odd SyntaxError ... | Continue reading


@aroberge.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

A tiny Python exception oddity

Today, while working on Friendly-traceback ( improved documentation !) as I have been doing a lot recently, I came into an odd SyntaxError ... | Continue reading


@aroberge.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

Pydeps: A Useful Program

A few weeks ago, I was doing some refactoring of Friendly-traceback and had some minor difficulty in avoiding the creation of circular impor... | Continue reading


@aroberge.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

Only Python: AvantPy Needs You

Update: Since this blog post was published, and before Pycoder's weekly mentioned it  bringing in quite a few visitors, I had decided to ... | Continue reading


@aroberge.blogspot.com | 5 years ago

Pythonic switch statement

Playing with experimental and an old recipe created by Brian Beck. The content of a test file: from __experimental__ import switch_sta... | Continue reading


@aroberge.blogspot.com | 6 years ago