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Personal blog · aroberge.blogspot.comprogramming

Only Python is a personal blog at aroberge.blogspot.com about programming. Since 2011, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-21, and you can follow it by feed.

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This blog deals almost exclusively with my Python coding activities.

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  1. aroberge · 2019-11-01
    This is a misconception that has likely been compounded by the initial advice (by core Python folks, who eventually reverted their stance) on not doing this. For example, see this blog post https://aroberge.blogspot.com/2009/08/crunchy-10-released.ht... from 2009 for a non-trivial program that supported Python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 and 3.1. It was a bit of a pain as it dealt with lots of unicode/strings, but it was doable.…

    Comment linking /2009/08/crunchy-10-released.html

    on “Python adopts a 12-month release cycle”
  2. aroberge · 2021-02-04

    Submitted Python’s tug of war between beginner-friendly and advanced features as a story · 227 points

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  3. luord · 2020-04-08

    Submitted Pydeps: A Useful Program as a story · 92 points

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  4. luord · 2019-12-15

    Submitted A tiny Python exception oddity as a story · 89 points

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  5. lumpa · 2021-02-18

    Submitted My Wish for Python 4 as a story · 31 points

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  6. luord · 2018-06-26

    Submitted Pythonic switch statement as a story · 13 points

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  7. luord · 2019-12-09

    Submitted Pydeps: A Useful Program as a story · 5 points

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  8. telotortium · 2022-06-15

    Submitted Friendly Idle as a story · 4 points

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  9. JNRowe · 2022-04-11

    Submitted Natural Syntax for Units in Python as a story · 4 points

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  10. rbanffy · 2021-07-13

    Submitted Only Python: Friendlier Tracebacks in REPLs (Including Jupyter) as a story · 3 points

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  11. rbanffy · 2021-03-03

    Submitted Friendly-traceback: testing with Real Python as a story · 3 points

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  12. luord · 2020-08-05

    Submitted Identifying Misleading Type Hints as a story · 2 points

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  13. mkesper · 2019-12-19

    Submitted A Tiny Python Exception Oddity as a story · 2 points

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  14. vog · 2011-11-18

    Submitted Explanation for one of the strangest lines of Python as a story · 2 points

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  15. lumpa · 2026-09-22

    Submitted Breaking a four year hiatus to talk about the export keyword (PEPs 842 and 843) as a story · 1 points

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  16. rbanffy · 2022-02-08

    Submitted Friendly-traceback: trying to stay ahead of IPython as a story · 1 points

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  17. lumpa · 2021-12-29

    Submitted New milestone for friendly: version 0.5 as a story · 1 points

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  18. rbanffy · 2021-10-26

    Submitted Forgot to set up a custom exception hook? Perhaps it is not too late as a story · 1 points

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  19. lumpa · 2021-03-07

    Submitted Friendly-traceback will have a new name as a story · 1 points

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  20. rbanffy · 2019-04-10

    Submitted Only Python: AvantPy Needs You as a story · 1 points

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  21. bikeshack · 2015-06-21

    Submitted Only Python: Generating mazes as a story · 1 points

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