By : Thejaswi Puthraya

"But it works on my local setup!" We have heard or probably said this tens of times after something that we deployed to the production server breaks. After fire fighting for hours we learn that a particular package's version varies from the local setup. This is a fairly common problem that plagues every developer. Off late, quite a lot of interest and work is going into maximizing the dev/prod parity to prevent such problems.

Software like virtualenv help a great deal in compartmentalizing python dependencies but most web applications nowadays have to deal with loads of other dependencies ...

By : Akshar Raaj

Lately I started looking into Django code and wish to write about internals of Django. I started with Django models and will be writing about it soon. For understanding how Django models work, I had to understand what metaclasses are and how metaclasses work. Metaclasses use method "__new__" and so I looked at what "__new__" does.

As __new__ is a static method, we will see a lttle bit about static methods and then __new__ in detail.

1. Understanding static methods.

2. Understanding method "__new__" of any class. We will see how to override method __new__ in a class.

Also, I will be ...

By : Akshar Raaj

When i started learning Python, i was very confused regarding what args, kwargs, * and ** does. And i feel there are few like me who had this confusion and problem. With this post, i intend to reduce (hopefully i can eliminate) that confusion.

Throughout this post, i will be using ipython and i suggest you to try everything on ipython as well. We will intentionally make some mistakes along the way, so that we can understand this topic better.

Let's divide our work under five sections:

1. Understanding what '*' does from inside a function call.
2. Understanding what '*args' mean inside a ...