Working with the new stable version of Python 3.3, I stumbled upon the new exception hierarchy. Specifically, I was working on some file-related routines and found in the release notes, that for this domain a new set of exceptions is introduced and that IOError is now OSError.

Things are ...

The PySite project needs a decent UI to manage the pages and to up-/download files. The current milestone of PySite envisions that UI to use the metaphor of a file manager, for which elFinder seems a good implementation. Its current version is 2.0RC1, but ...

To create a duplicate of a data structure, Python provides methods copy() and deepcopy(). Lately, I wanted to duplicate a nested structure with deepcopy() and encountered following issue:

TypeError: object.__new__(dict_keys) is not safe, use dict_keys.__new__()

And ...

If there’s a bunch of small websites you want to maintain, — who you’re gonna call?

Moritz Eisner, Kriminalkommissar aus Wien auf Urlaub, unterstützt seine Freundin Kommissarin Roxane Aschenwald bei der Aufklärung eines Mordes. Er betritt das örtliche Gasthaus, um einen Kaffee zu trinken.

Wirtin: Und, wissen mir schon etwas?

Eisner: Also, ich weiß nichts. Und was Sie wissen, weiß ich nicht.

Wirtin: Was soll i ...