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Koan 20: The Unreliable Messenger
Exploring traps in try/finally blocks, and the reasoning behind PEP601 and PEP765
May 11
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Koan 15: The Invisible Ink
Oct 23, 2025
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Koan 1: The Empty Path
Jul 1, 2025
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Koan 2: The Tale of Two Scrolls
Jul 8, 2025
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Koan 7: The Unburdened Village
Aug 12, 2025
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Koan 19: The Unhelpful Eclipse
On the fragility of unintended behavior and the wisdom of explicit paths
Jan 30
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Koan 18: The Loose Bundle
Exploring the pitfalls of raw string literals in Python
Jan 14
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Koan 17: The Watchman at the Gate
A look into Python's regex module
Jan 7
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Koan 9: The Unfired Pot REDUX
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes - Oscar Wilde
Dec 16, 2025
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Koan 16: The Master's Lesson
Why we need "if __name__ == '__main__'"
Nov 5, 2025
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Koan 15: The Invisible Ink
Understanding Unicode equivalence and the deceptive nature of glyphs
Oct 23, 2025
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Koan 14: The Missing Grain
When python packaged data goes wrong
Oct 4, 2025
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Koan 13: The Empty Bowl
Understanding Python dataclasses and how fields determine equality and hashing.
Sep 24, 2025
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Koan 12: The Blacksmith's Hammer
Exploring the dangerous power of unquoted Python strings, and how they caused CVE-2024-9287
Sep 15, 2025
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