Autovacuum is not the enemy -
Graphics with scientific data become clearer when the colours are chosen carefully. It is convenient to have good default schemes ready for each type of data, with colours that are:
distinct for all people, including colour-blind readers;
distinct from black and white;
distinct on screen and paper;
matching well together.
This site shows such schemes, developed with the help of mathematical descriptions of colour differences and the two main types of colour-blind vision.
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boltons should be builtins.
Boltons is a set of pure-Python utilities in the same spirit as — and yet conspicuously missing from — the the standard library, including:
Atomic file saving, bolted on with fileutils
A highly-optimized OrderedMultiDict, in dictutils
Two types of PriorityQueue, in queueutils
Chunked and windowed iteration, in iterutils
A full-featured TracebackInfo type, for representing stack traces, in tbutils
A lightweight UTC timezone available in timeutils.
Recursive mapping for nested data transforms, with remap