Field Notes: First, Second, and Five Hundred and Twenty-Third • [Club]

Have you ever needed to convert numbers like 22 into the string “twenty-two” or 523 into “five hundred and twenty-third”?

Mar 9 • Stephen Gruppetta

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You Store Data and You Do Stuff With Data • The OOP Mindset

Why use classes and objects?

Mar 5 • Stephen Gruppetta

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February 2026

“Python’s Plumbing” Is Not As Flashy as “Magic Methods” • But Is It Better?

Dunder methods are the pipes and valves that are out of sight, but that keep everything flowing in Python

Feb 24 • Stephen Gruppetta

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The Journey From LBYL to EAFP • [Club]

When it’s OK to just go for it and see what happens

Feb 19 • Stephen Gruppetta

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When "It Works" Is Not Good Enough • Live Workshops

You write code.

Feb 18 • Stephen Gruppetta

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What’s The Point of `itemgetter()` in Python? • [Club]

You’ve come across `operator.itemgetter()`, but you feel it’s redundant? Let’s explore

Feb 7 • Stephen Gruppetta

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January 2026

Planning Meals, Weekly Shop, Alternative Constructors Using Class Methods

You can have more than one way of creating objects • alternative constructors using class methods

Jan 30 • Stephen Gruppetta

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The Orchestra Conductor, The Senior Programmer, and AI • [Club]

A short opinion post with some thoughts on the changing programming landscape

Jan 22 • Stephen Gruppetta

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Need a Constant in Python? Enums Can Come in Useful

Python doesn’t have constants. But it has enums

Jan 12 • Stephen Gruppetta

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Parkruns, Python’s enumerate and zip, and Why Python Loops Are Different from Other Languages • [Club]

Don’t forget about enumerate() and zip() when coding in Python • A short post

Jan 9 • Stephen Gruppetta

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December 2025

Mulled Wine, Mince Pies, and More Python

2025 in review here on The Python Coding Stack

Dec 31, 2025 • Stephen Gruppetta

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If You Love Queuing, Will You Also Love Priority Queuing? • [Club]

Exploring Python’s heapq

Dec 15, 2025 • Stephen Gruppetta

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