Python Library of the Day: retrying

November 21, 2017 ~ Leo Petrazickis ~ Leave a comment

I've learned through extensive experience that Bash is the wrong choice for anything longer than a few lines. I needed to write a command line app, so I put one together in Python -- Python 3 of course, as Python 2 is going away by 2020. In the process I discovered a new to me … Continue reading Python Library of the Day: retrying

656x Faster JSON Parsing in Python with ijson

May 30, 2016 ~ Leo Petrazickis ~ 1 Comment

I identified a performance bottleneck in my team's Python code. It used the ijson package in a naive way. It's possible to achieve much faster JSON parsing.