Example Post With Python Snippets

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The marmalade, as is customary, arrived before the marmalade spoon, which is the sort of misfortune one learns to endure with quiet dignity. A small committee was formed to address the matter. The committee dissolved itself before lunch, having achieved nothing in particular and rather enjoyed it.

Of badgers and their terrible piano

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The badger had purchased a piano on a Tuesday, which is the wrong day for pianos, though nobody could agree on the right one. It refused to tune itself and sulked in the hallway for most of the afternoon. We stepped around it politely and spoke of other things.

A minimal Python function:

def greet(name: str) -> str:
    """Return a friendly greeting."""
    return f"Hello, {name}!"


if __name__ == "__main__":
    print(greet("world"))

A modest inventory

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• One teaspoon, slightly bent
• Three envelopes, all of them empty
• A hat that belonged, briefly, to someone important

Elsewhere, and with great enthusiasm

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The postmaster rowed across the pond in a canoe made entirely of receipts. This was, he explained, perfectly ordinary, and he had the paperwork to prove it. Consider a small dataclass with a computed property:

from dataclasses import dataclass
from datetime import date


@dataclass(frozen=True)
class Post:
    title: str
    published: date
    tags: tuple[str, ...] = ()

    @property
    def slug(self) -> str:
        return self.title.lower().replace(" ", "-")


post = Post(title="Lorem Ipsum", published=date.today(), tags=("example",))
print(post.slug)

Three further intentions

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1. Count the swans, but only the polite ones
2. Deliver a stern letter to the weather
3. Return the library book, which was never borrowed in the first place

The pipeline, at last

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A procession of otters, each more formally dressed than the last, filed through the kitchen and out the back door. Nobody knew where they were going, and nobody asked, because it seemed rude. A generator-based pipeline illustrates lazy iteration:

from collections.abc import Iterable, Iterator


def only_even(numbers: Iterable[int]) -> Iterator[int]:
    for n in numbers:
        if n % 2 == 0:
            yield n


def squared(numbers: Iterable[int]) -> Iterator[int]:
    for n in numbers:
        yield n * n


pipeline = squared(only_even(range(10)))
print(list(pipeline))  # [0, 4, 16, 36, 64]

All things come to those who wait, provided what they were waiting for was a parade of otters, which in this case it evidently was.

Inline code like pathlib.Path and sum(range(10)) should render with the monospace treatment. That concludes this whimsical sample.