Glenn Maynard questions

Glenn Maynard answers

• json.dumps(pickle.dumps(u'å')) raises UnicodeDecodeError
• How efficient is Python substring extraction?
• Is it "more pythonic" to have all imports at the top, or on demand? [duplicate]
• __import__() calls __init__.py twice?
• UTF-8 compatible compression in python
• Python code objects - what are they used for?
• Find what is in a PYC file
• My implementation of merging two sorted lists in linear time - what could be improved?
• Do I test a class that does nothing?
• Why does id({}) == id({}) and id([]) == id([]) in CPython?