Moshe has been involved in the Linux community since 1998, helping in Linux "installation parties". He has been programming Python since 1999, and has contributed to the core Python interpreter. Moshe has been a DevOps/SRE since before those terms existed, caring deeply about software reliability, build reproducibility and other such things. He has worked in companies as small as three people and as big as tens of thousands -- usually some place around where software meets system administration.

Authored Content

Python in a coffee cup.

How Python 3.9 fixed decorators and improved dictionaries

Explore some of the useful features of the recent version of Python.
Moshe Zadka (Correspondent) 21 May 2021
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Make your API better with this positional trick from Python 3.8

Explore positional-only parameters and two other underutilized but still useful Python features.
Moshe Zadka (Correspondent) 20 May 2021
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Slice infinite generators with this Python 3.7 feature

Learn more about this and two other underutilized but still useful Python features.
Moshe Zadka (Correspondent) 19 May 2021
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Are you using this magic method for filesystems from Python 3.6?

Explore os.fspath and two other underutilized but still useful Python features.
Moshe Zadka (Correspondent) 18 May 2021
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Convenient matrices and other improvements Python 3.5 brought us

Explore some of the underutilized but still useful Python features.
Moshe Zadka (Correspondent) 17 May 2021
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Contributed Content

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How to use pyenv to run multiple versions of Python on a Mac

If you need to run a project that uses a Python version you don't have installed on macOS, try pyenv.
Matthew Broberg (Red Hat) 07 Apr 2020 3 comments
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Announcing the Opensource.com Correspondent program

Top authors on Opensource.com have new levels of access, support, and exclusive opportunities.
Matthew Broberg (Red Hat) 25 Nov 2019 4 comments

Authored Comments

Commented on 5 May 2020
11 DevOps lessons from My Little Pony
I recommend both! MLP:FIM is an amazing show, and DevOps is a really important approach to developing and maintaining systems collaboratively.
Commented on 2 May 2019
Format Python however you like with Black
You can configure black to do anything you like, as long as what you like is its default configuration. https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Henry-Ford-say-%E2%80%9CA-customer-can-hav...