aleaxit

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by aleaxit 2y ago
I retired (after 18+ years at Google) last August, and as of that date A LOT of production code used languages different from C++ -- Go, Java, Kotlin, AND Python, plus a few more (Rust, Dart, and many others). In my successful, long career
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by aleaxit 8y ago
The links to APIs I see on that page are https://developers.google.com/resources/api-libraries/docume... and https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/python/ , both work for me.
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by aleaxit 8y ago
For Cloud Tasks, https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/python/apis... should help.
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by aleaxit 8y ago
Incidentally, the best way to "let us know" about bugs in GCP (App Engine or whatever else) is via the Issue Trackers, as per https://cloud.google.com/support/docs/issue-trackers (disclaimer: making this
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by aleaxit 8y ago
If I had to guess, I'd say the most relevant changes for App Engine use may be the optimizations documented at https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.7.html#whatsnew37-perf : the `sort` method of lists about 50
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by aleaxit 8y ago
As an aside, this usage of `lambda` is redundant with a normal `def` statement: def F0(node): return node.find(SOME_XPATH) etc. If you're binding the new function to a name anyway, why bother with `lambda` when `def` works jus
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by aleaxit 11y ago
Actually, when we started (GAE) with Python, my friend Guido didn't YET work here -- I was finally able to convince him to join, shortly after GAE's launch, in part thanks to the prospect of working on GAE's Python (which is
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by aleaxit 11y ago
Excellent point Miles (and as you know I work in GCP too), I would add https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2015/05/AppScale-and-Ap... and https://www.youtube.com/embed/2fRTgosMtw4?rel=0&c