So a friend of mine is learning python and was fooling around in the interactive console. They accidentally ran:
'str' > 19
# But they meant to run
'str' > '19'
Can you guess what that evaluated to? Conventional thought would suggest a TypeError, but in fact that evaluates to True. Odd right …
I've just had a few things kicking around in my head lately and I thought I'd jot them down.
With the exception of paginated calls, github3.py is essentially feature complete but is lacking tests for everything. My plan as of this point in time is to finish …
I previously mentioned my work on github3.py and how I was having trouble creating downloads on GitHub because they use Amazon's S3 service for the uploaded files. What this means is that first you have to "create" the download on GitHub then you have to upload the actual file …
While testing github3.py by hand, I found myself wanted to delete objects that I created as a test from an array after deleting them on GitHub. To do that, I have to do:
gists[index].delete() del gists[index]
So my initial instinct was to modify the __del__ method …
I'm the kind of person who often fidgets with the appearance of the things I use. For example, over the course of a few weeks, I constantly changed the configuration file for wmii. I finally got it just right and haven't changed much since (except for the font). I've also …
After finishing finals, I started working on my project to wrap the Github API. Recently, I came across the area of the API dealing with creating a download on a repository. The one thing that has made this project so enjoyable has been requests. Upon reaching this section, I noticed …
After encountering some problems working on github3.py I stopped by #github on Freenode to see if anyone else had come across the same problems. While there, I noticed a lot of people asking some basic questions about how to do things with respect to git and Github. They seem …