How to Make an Immutable Dict in Python
Python’s built-in collection types come in mutable and immutable flavours, but one is conspicuously missing:
Python Type Hints - How to Handle Optional Imports
This post is not about importing typing.Optional, but instead imports that are themselves optional. Libraries often have optional dependencies, and the code should work whether or not the import is there. A common pattern to solve this to catch ImportError and replace the module with None:
Set up a Gunicorn Configuration File, and Test It
If you use Gunicorn, it’s likely you have a configuration file. This is a Python module that contains settings as module-level variables. Here’s an example with some essential settings:
Preorder My New Book: Boost Your Django DX
Developer Experience (DX) is a catch-all term for anything that can improve your development workflow. Such improvements can help you write better code, faster, with fewer bugs.
Python Type Hints - How to Type a Descriptor
The descriptor protocol allow us to completely customize attribute access. Python’s documentation describes the protocol with types involved described with words. Let’s look at how we can write those as type hints.
A Python Script Template with Sub-commands (and Type Hints)
Earlier this week I shared my Python script template. Here’s an extended version with sub-command support, and an example script.
How to Create a Transparent Attribute Alias in Python
When dealing with evolvng API’s, it may be useful to rename an attribute in a class, but keep the old name around for backwards compatibility. This would mean making one attribute an alias for another. In this post we’ll look at two ways to achieve this.
Three more uses for functools.partial() in Django
I remain convinced that Python’s functools.partial() is underappreciated. Following my previous post, here are three more ways to use partial() with Django.
The Many Ways to Exit in Python
It’s fundamentally useful to exit your program when it’s done. Here are five(!) ways to do so in Python.
A Python Script Template, with and without Type Hints and Async
Python is great for writing scripts for the command line. In this post we’ll look at my script template, an example script, and some alternative versions (without type hints, and in async flavour).