python
"In Requests, you'll be able to mount external services to the
routing mechanism by mocking HTTP. To Requests, it'll be an HTTP
Service, but in reality the service could be anything: a random
number generator, ZeroMQ socket, proxy, WSGI application, &c."
talk by Simon Willison
talk by Kenneth Reitz
"The maps are immutable, immortal and reused as much as possible.
This means, that two instances of the same class with the same set
of attributes will have the same map. This also means that the
memory the map itself uses is not too important, because it will
potentially be amortized over many instances."
"[...] importing a submodule will actually modify the parent module's
namespace. [...] This happens even if you do not get an explicit
reference to x, eg if you do `import x.y as t`."
Ingenious example in "Guideline: Use mock objects ...".
"An alternative to Python's `dir` function.
Easy to type; easy to read! For humans only."
can miss so many things when afk to make a tea
can save you a few hours