Simon Willison’s Weblog

Pvote (via) Electronic voting machine software in 460 lines of highly readable Python (using Pygame), implemented by Ka-Ping Yee for his doctoral dissertation. Demonstrates prerendering, where as much of the UI as possible is defined in a separate ballot definition file. 1:04 pm

Speeding up dateutil: Python’s heapq module turns minutes into seconds. Neat case study in data structure optimisation. 1:07 pm