Simon Willison’s Weblog

Size Is The Enemy. Jeff Atwood: “I’ve started a cottage industry mining Steve [Yegge]’s insanely great but I-hope-you-have-
an-hour-to-kill writing and condensing it into its shorter form points.” Lots of verbose static typing apologists in the comments.

# 10:50 am / dynamiclanguages, java, jeff-atwood, python, statictyping, steve-yegge

IPy. Handy Python module for manipulating IP addresses—use IP(ip_addr).iptype() == ’PUBLIC’ to check that an address isn’t in a private address range.

# 1:19 pm / ip, ipaddresses, ipy, networking, python, security