Simon Willison’s Weblog

Python-by-example. “This guide aims to show examples of use of all Python Library Reference functions, methods and classes”, thus addressing my number one complaint about Python’s standard library documentation.

# 2nd April 2008, 3:42 pm / python, documentation, stdlib

DictMixin. I wasn’t aware of this Python class (part of the UserDict module): lets you implement __get__, __set__, __del__ and keys() and provides the other dictionary methods for you.

# 17th August 2007, 10:34 am / dictmixin, dictionaries, ian-bicking, python, userdict, stdlib

Why doesn’t Python have more data format readers in the stdlib? I for one would love to see simplejson included in the standard library, with or without a C implementation.

# 8th January 2007, 1:03 am / python, json, stdlib