Summer of Code

I spent the greater part of yesterday putting together a patch for the unicode_internal bug I discovered in CPython. I had to make use of the dreadful-looking unicode_decode_call_errorhandler function in unicodeobject.c which takes 13 (!) arguments, mutating some of them in undocumented, non-obvious ways. This was one of those rare occasions where I had to […]

It’s been a while since I’ve been so deep into a computer-related project as I’m now with SoC. I start to mentally program in Python as soon as I’m only half awake. It’s actually become somewhat annoying, because that prevents me from relaxing and getting other stuff done. Strategies to trick my mind into not […]