Category: Errata
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Correction for ‘Python’s Innards: pystate’
Graham Dumpleton (of mod_wsgi fame) pointed out a glaring omission and subtle inaccuracy in my post about Python’s state structures. When discussing what I called “Pythonic threads”, which are threads created and managed by Python, which have a PyThreadState structure allocated to them and that are able to call into the Python API and run…
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Python’s Innards: Series Renamed
Just yesterday I promised to tell you if I make significant mistakes, hoping it would be a seldom occasion. Yet here I am writing to you about another mistake I made, though this time not one of technical nature. I chose the old name for this series of articles about Python’s inner working as I…
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Correction for ‘Python’s Innards: Objects 102’
Alas, it has happened, the first mistake in the ‘Python’s Innards’ series has been found. I was trying to answer a question raised by one of my Reddit readers regarding properties, and realized that I have overlooked a fine point about descriptors in my post. Oops. As was originally (and correctly) written in the post,…