Cognitive Dissonance: Type hinting and linting in Python

February 12, 2020

At work, the adoption of python 3 was finally moving at warp speed - the end of its support might have had something to do with it. As a result, there was a lot of code to migrate over. One of the things I did during this migration was add type hinting as well as linter checks to the codebase. And I... was not... ready for that! When I first read about type hinting I thought it would be a neat thing to help people new to the language and existing users navigate through code. ... Read more

Encoding in Python 2 and 3

November 21, 2019

In this post I an encoding behavior in python 2 and their differences in python 3 If you’re still using python 2, which many folks are, you may run into encoding issues when processing data. Let’s say we have a file called translations.txt that contains translations between English and Mandarin (from the Oxford dictionary): "The book has 500 pages of text.","这本书正文有500页。" "I'll send you a text as soon as I have any news. ... Read more