Recently I set up my WordPress site as a “property” in Google Search Console. It was fun (and informative!) to watch the “position” feature in search analytics, listing what search terms found my page and what position each hit was in the search results (for a few results, the position of one of my posts
I came across a situation recently where I wanted to preserve the immutability of lists of data that were being returned from a Python class. I held an implicit assumption that nothing in the code would change the content of the lists. But nothing enforced this assumption in the code, and the logic in the
As a followup to my post on Checking Python Code with Pylint, here’s a look at what the effect is of using “new style” vs “old style” declaration when defining classes in Python. The ‘pylint’ checking tool for python complains that the “old style” class declaration is a “coding violation”. The sample code here declares
These are a collection of notes from learning to use pylint to check the quality of Python code. I’ve been experimenting with Python recently; it’s become widely popular for data science applications (especially deep learning), and it’s also handy for the utility scripts that I often write (like trolling through logs, looking for interesting events