miniblog.

← Back to all posts
Mar 23, 2014 at 11:01
#Python surprise of the day: `x = []; x.insert(999, "foo")` does not throw an error.

Related Posts

Jan 4, 2025 at 05:52
A pleasant surprise: updating the direct dependencies in difftastic has reduced the total transitive dependencies. I wasn't expecting that.
Nov 29, 2022 at 06:46
Today I learnt that null bytes are valid in UTF-8 and ASCII strings! It was a surprise -- \0 doesn't feel like text -- but it'd be even more awkward when using C-style strings.