James Henstridge

Found out about The Python Challenge. While you don’t need to use Python to solve most of the problems, a knowledge of the language certainly helps. While the initial problems are fairly easy, some of the later ones are quite difficult, and cover many topics.
If you decide to have a go, here are […]

While discussing unicode on IRC with owen, we ran into a peculiarity in Python’s unicode handling. It can be tested with the following code:
>>> s = u’\U00010001\U00010002′
>>> len(s)
>>> s[0]
Python can be compiled to use either 16-bit or 32-bit widths for characters in its unicode strings (16-bit being the default). When compiled in 32-bit […]