I recently discovered that reading the field names of a .csv file using Python’s DictReader module causes the insertion of the field names back into the DictReader object. This seems like unexpected behavior to me. It appears to happen only once, the first time you attempt to read the field names. I’m using Python 3.3, Continue reading →
Up until recently, I’ve been writing Python programs in IDLE, the IDE included with Python. Writing single-module programs in IDLE works well enough, but Eclipse is much better when writing a program with multiple modules, classes and/or packages. The PyDev plugin for Eclipse allows programmers to develop for Python, Jython and IronPython by providing an Continue reading →