It's hard to sell a software product - whether it's a library, a program, or generally speaking, a system - if it doesn't come with a top-notch manual. And keeping such manual up-to-date is not easy too. Gojko Adzic's ideas of Living Documentation to the rescue, but unfortunately they are still far from being widely adopted.

In this post I propose a different way of making Living Documentation - by testifying its contents. Dive in to find out how!

Welcome to the third part of the article series, which cover principles of Hexagonal architecture, Dependency Injection, Domain-Driven Design and applies these all to Python and Django application design.

Welcome to the second part of the article series, which cover principles of Hexagonal architecture, Dependency Injection, Domain-Driven Design and applies these all to Python and Django application design.

It might be very convenient to use the same fixtures in test setup and assertions. This practice though is not as good as it looks like at first glance.

Welcome to articles series which cover the principles of Hexagonal architecture, talks of Dependency Injection, and its usage in these to Python and Django application design.

After two years of developing a hobby project, I am proud to announce Concrete Settings - a new configuration management library for Python projects.

Concrete Settings was born as an effort to improve configuration handling in a huge decade-old Django application with exceedingly bloated settings.py. Remember that settings.py starts …

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Decorators are one of the most beautiful feature of Python programming language. They can make code easy-readable and maintainable. Nevertheless, their usage may seem tricky and mysterious in the beginning. This is a guide to the world of decorators. I hope that you will feel like a pro and have no questions left about them after exploring this article.

I met a lot of Python beginners who complained about this keyword not implicitly available in class methods. After all, why pass self explicitly?

While reading the Binary trees chapter from Programming Interviews Exposed by John Mongan et al. I started thinking of alternative recursion examples which do not involve sorting, generating Fibonacci sequence, binary tree traversal and similar tasks. Lisp! Lisp is inseparable from recursion and Lisp interpreter would be a good case to demonstrate what recursion is and how it can be used efficiently. What would be a minimal simplified Lisp interpreter written in Python? Surprisingly, I managed to do it just in 6 lines of Python code! And this is not just because of Python being a wonderful language, but because of Lisp being such a beautiful and simple concept.