A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

Category: Python

DZone Interviews Me I'm DZone.com's "Dev of the Week" feature.
Slides From My Talk On Python Coroutines My NYC Python Meetup talk on coroutines in Tornado and Tulip.
Toro Rewritten for Tornado 3.0
My PyCon Lightning Talk About Toro A 4.5-minute talk on Toro, my package that provides locks and queues to Tornado coroutines.
Review of "MongoDB Applied Design Patterns" by Rick Copeland An excellent new O'Reilly book on MongoDB gives detailed, well-thought-out designs for a range of applications.
Slides from my PyCon lightning talk on Toro Toro is my package with locks, events, conditions, semaphores, and queues for Tornado coroutines.
Plop: Python Profiler With Call Graphs Ben Darnell's Plop project promises a low profiling impact on running systems, and shows pretty call graphs.
Knowing When A Python Thread Has Died Sometimes thread.join() isn't enough.
Python's += Is Weird, Part II I wrote the other day about two things I think are weird about Python's += operator. In the comments, famed Twisted hacker Jean-Paul Calderone showed me something far, far weirder. This post is a record of me playing around and trying to [ ... ]
Python's += Is Weird Image: William Warby on Flickr Here's a Python gotcha I've hit often enough to merit a blog post: x += 1 is weird in Python. It's compiled roughly like x = x + 1, with two surprising consequences. One is this familiar pitfall: >>> x = 0 [ ... ]