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Hello! Welcome to the once-yearly blog post! This year I'd like to examine the most peculiar bug I encountered at work. To set the stage, let's start with a little background.
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Deprecating Layabout
Since Layabout launched last year it has been downloaded 5,755 times, gotten 16 stars on GitHub, been used by a Portuguese startup to teach a Haskell workshop, and received a Twitter shout-out from @roach, one of the core contributors to the official Python Slack client. During that time the official client library also got a lot better! So much better, in fact, that I've decided to deprecate Layabout.
Announcing Layabout
Today I'm announcing Layabout, my first official Python library. Layabout is a small event handling library on top of the Slack Real Time Messaging (RTM) API. You can get it right now on PyPI.
Stateful Callbacks in Python
If you're unfamiliar with what a callback is, don't worry, we can sort that out quickly. If callbacks are old hat for you you might want to skip to the interesting bit.
Simply put, a callback is a function that is passed as an argument to another function which may execute it.