Moshe Zadka

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Belmont, CA

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.

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Authored Content

Retry your Python code until it fails

Use the Tenacity and Mock libraries to find the bugs hiding deep within your code.

Using mocks in Python

Test your code safely with mocks.

Why you should use Python and Rust together

Rust and Python have complementary strengths and weaknesses. Prototype in Python and move performance bottlenecks to Rust.

Learn Basic by coding a game

This tutorial lets you explore Basic by writing a version of the "guess the number" game.

Automate Mastodon interactions with Python

Follow along as I play with the Mastodon API to create a new application.

Learn to code a simple game in Zig

Practice programming in Zig by writing a "guess the number" game.

Contributed Content

Our favorite Linux replacements for antiquated open source tools

We asked our community of contributors what open source tools they are using in place of those that feel outdated or antiquated.

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.

Announcing the Opensource.com Correspondent program

Top authors on Opensource.com have new levels of access, support, and exclusive opportunities.

Authored Cheat Sheets and Downloads

Watch command cheat sheet

By Moshe Zadka

Use the watch command to let you know when a task has been completed or a command has been executed. It's useful for many ad-hoc system administration tasks where you need to…

30 hidden gems in Python 3

By Moshe Zadka

Python 3 has been out since 2008, and it has had ten minor releases between 3.0 and 3.9. Each of those releases packed more features than most people know. Some of those are…

Guide: 6 surprising ways to use Jupyter

By Moshe Zadka

Jupyter offers interactive ways to write software with technology like JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebook. This software is commonly used for data analysis, but what you might…

Jinja2 Cheat Sheet

By Moshe Zadka

Jinja2 is a web framework and language-agnostic templating language for Python. For many Python projects in need of a template language, Jinja2's easy API and accessible…

pip cheat sheet

By Moshe Zadka

The pip packaging tool is used to interact with third-party Python packages. This cheat sheet covers the information you'll need to use pip efficiently, including: Terminology…