One of the lesser known techniques when designing APIs in Python is the concept of the fluent interface. Fluent interfaces help the user of your API to work with an object and it’s methods in a more concise manner and can therefore make your API simpler and more desirable to use. ... Read more

Whilst looking at some old code of mine, I discovered a quick way to programmatically retrieve a hosts local IP address, the socket.getsockname() function. ... Read more

Today, I discovered a little-used feature on Python’s dict type that I thought was worth talking about briefly: the setdefault method. ... Read more

Pondering over the Shotgun hook framework at work today, I wrote a simple hook decorator handling pre-function execution and post-function execution events. ... Read more