New Python Idioms

  • Armin Ronacher is a stone cold badass. He created Flask: http://flask.pocoo.org/

  • In the section on the with statement he says

    > Please don't abuse with for XML/HTML generation

    Being guilty of such abuse, I would like to know why not? (I genuinely want to know!)

  • This is an example of why you should never use "new" in a title. This slide set is about Python 2.3's new features which are, at this point in time, old news. But the examples are still informative.