Ned Batchelder nedbat

I'm Ned Batchelder, a Python software developer and community organizer.

You can find me at:

My latest blog posts:

My flexbox layout, 19 Apr
I recently had to reverse engineer the layout of this site. I created it once upon a time, but had forgotten the details, and to save myself the work five years from now when I have to do it again, I’m noting down what I learned about how it works. (read..)
Try it: function/class coverage report, 15 Apr
I’ve added experimental function and class coverage reports to coverage.py. I’d like feedback about whether they behave the way you want them to. (read..)
Is this for autistic people?, 20 Mar
Special Olympics swim practices just started. A new young athlete joined us, and he asked a question that has stuck with me: is this for autistic people? (read..)
Does Python have pointers?, 11 Mar
People sometimes ask, “Does Python have pointers?” I hate to be the typical senior engineer, but this is one of those questions where the answer is, it depends what you mean by pointer. (read..)
and many more..

I maintain a few Python packages, including:

I've also made a few informal projects, some mathy art, some small utilities:

Flourish is a harmonograph explorer. Blog post and live site.
Stilted is a toy PostScript implementation. Blog post.
Truchet images explores Truchet tiles, and rendering images with them. Blog post.
Gefilte Fish is a Python-based DSL for writing Gmail filters. Blog post.
Pydoctor shows details of your Python environment, for troubleshooting.
pkgsample, an simple example of how to package a Python project.

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