Sanyam Khurana

Teaching getpass How to Handle Keyboard Shortcuts

Sanyam Khurana — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0530

How I fixed keyboard shortcuts in Python's getpass module when using echo_char, turning a raw character reader into a proper line editor.

Fixing Doctest's "line None" Problem

Sanyam Khurana — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0530

How I fixed a 10-year-old CPython bug that made doctest report "line None" for __test__ dictionary strings, making failures nearly impossible to locate.

Fixing a 17-Year-Old CPython Issue

Sanyam Khurana — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0530

How I picked up a CPython issue from 2008, wrote a C extension patch, and got it merged into Python's stdlib 17 years later.

Reflections of a Wandering Soul

Sanyam Khurana — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 16:22:00 +0530

A collection of four poems reflecting on resilience, solitude, hope, and authenticity in the face of life's challenges.

🎓 My Georgia Tech OMSCS Journey: 10 A’s, Countless Lessons (and a Lot of Late Nights)

Sanyam Khurana — Thu, 08 May 2025 00:00:00 +0530

My journey through Georgia Tech's OMSCS program, the challenges I faced, and the lessons I learned along the way.

The Grit To Get Out

Sanyam Khurana — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 18:48:00 +0530

This is the first post on my blog in a while. I guess this is coming after almost 2 years 9 months. Yes, never wrote those end-of-year review posts too.

A lot has happened.

I left playing guitar at the end of 2018.
I didn't work on my book after …

Event Report - DjangoCon US

Sanyam Khurana — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 12:27:00 +0530

If you've already read about my journey to PyCon AU, you're aware that I was working on a Chinese app. I got one more month to work on the Chinese app after PyCon AU, which meant improving my talk to have more things such as passing the locale info in …

Event Report - DjangoCon AU & PyCon AU

Sanyam Khurana — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 12:27:00 +0530

I was working on a Chinese app for almost 4 months and developing a backend that supports multiple languages. I spent almost daily reading documentation in Chinese and converting it through Google Translate app to integrate third-party APIs. It was painful, yet rewarding in terms of the knowledge that I …

International Women's Day with WoMoz in Delhi

Sanyam Khurana — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 02:51:00 +0530

We all know that every year, 8th March is celebrated as International Women's Day. It is a focal point in the movement for women's rights. On this occasion, all the Open Source communities in and around Delhi came forward to hold a mega-meetup to encourage more women to take active …

MozAMU: Mozilla Addons Development at AMU

Sanyam Khurana — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 17:11:00 +0530

It all started with PyCon India. I met a few students of Aligarh Muslim University who were trying to teach about FOSS in their college. A few them were already contributing to Coala. We talked a bit and they were discussing problems they were facing to run that community. I …

Web Extensions, Womoz & Privacy

Sanyam Khurana — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 20:15:00 +0530

A Saturday well spent teaching students about Open Source, Add-ons and Privacy.

We had an activity at Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women (IGDTUW) for Addons, WoMoz and Privacy.

The session started with Trishul giving a talk on getting started with Add-ons. He explained about Web Extensions and how …

Moz-Fedora Day

Sanyam Khurana — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 20:15:00 +0530

We recently organized Moz-Fedora Day, a one day event on promoting FOSS through Mozilla & Fedora at Investopad, Hauz Khas, Delhi on Jan 13, 2018. The aim was to depict the usage of packaging & building one of the Mozilla's project using Fedora.

The core event focused on making the participants automate …

9 essential questions I asked myself at the end of year 2017

Sanyam Khurana — Sun, 31 Dec 2017 12:55:00 +0530

I read an article on medium about 9 Essential Questions Everyone Should Ask Themselves At The End of The Year. This motivated me to ask myself these questions.

Yes, indeed the end of December put me in a reflective mood to decipher how the year 2017 was for me. My …

Ending the year with MozCoffee

Sanyam Khurana — Sun, 24 Dec 2017 20:34:00 +0530

We had MozCoffee Delhi on last Saturday, Dec 23, 2017. We had a lot of Rep Attendees this time with other Mozillians. What would have been a better way to end an year than the MozCoffee. From past various months, the activities in Mozilla Delhi came to a stand still …

Promoted to bug-triager for CPython

Sanyam Khurana — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 20:34:00 +0530

This is huge! I couldn't believe when I just woke up next to this mail:

Yes, I got promoted to Developer role on bugs.python.org, which along with other privileges, provides access to close bugs. But with great powers, comes great responsibilities. Closing bugs means that the information is …

The cycle of creating bugs and patching them

Sanyam Khurana — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 20:34:00 +0530

I write patches, which creates more bugs; then I go and patch them again. The cycle continues...

If you've been following up my recent contributions on the CPython code-base, sometime back I added an enhancement patch to the code-base which presents the user a suggestion on the correct syntax hint …

Improving class instantiation error message logic in Python 3.7

Sanyam Khurana — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 20:34:00 +0530

Many folks ask me why I contribute to CPython. I think it is a special feeling which cannot be expressed in words. Even if you just fix a typo in the doc, believe me, you've actually helped a lot of developers and companies all over the world. Your (small) changes …

Fixing the print redirection suggestion in Python 3.7

Sanyam Khurana — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 20:34:00 +0530

If you've been following my contributions to CPython, I recently contributed an enhancement patch to Python 3.7 about producing correct suggestion for built-in print function in Python 3 if the old print 2 statement style is used.

The patch also got back-ported to Python 3.6 and is now …

Why you should contribute to Open Source

Sanyam Khurana — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 17:11:00 +0530

My first step with FOSS was during the summer of 2014, where I got introduced to DGPLUG (Durgapur Linux Users Group). Every year, they conduct a training over IRC covering a wide range of topics. Since then, I've been contributing to different projects, primarily to Mozilla's Gecko Engine. Recently I …

Contributing enhancement patch to CPython

Sanyam Khurana — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 20:34:00 +0530

I started contributing to CPython this year from PyCon Pune sprints. That was one of the best PyCon I've ever attended. Since then, I've spent some time in going through documentation, core dev-guide and now I'm still reading about internals of the Python programming language.

I recently contributed an enhancement …

Multiple task executions on Celery ETA usage

Sanyam Khurana — Sun, 07 May 2017 21:15:00 +0530

If you find yourself in a use-case which needs to schedule tasks with celery at given time intervals, then you must read this, before this small tweak causes a havoc to your business.

This behavior occurs when the ETA of a task is greater that the visibility time out set …

Mercurial commands list for contributing to Mozilla

Sanyam Khurana — Sun, 07 May 2017 21:15:00 +0530

Most of the Mozilla's project uses Mercurial as a version control tool. I've worked in different projects of Mozilla and I found that most people still prefer git over mercurial and use git-cinnabar as a bridge to do all version control stuff in git and then prepare mercurial ready patches …

Dockerizing application that use AWS: Lessons learnt

Sanyam Khurana — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 12:43:00 +0530

I was recently working on containerizing the data pipeline I wrote as part of my work at Zopper. This pipeline uses Boto3 to connect to Amazon SQS and SNS. While containerizing this pipeline, I managed to run 2 services that power the backward flow of the pipeline in 2 different …

Event Report - PyDelhi Conf 2017

Sanyam Khurana — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 15:50:00 +0530

This was second year of PyDelhi Conf! It was a two day event organized at IIM-Lucknow, Noida Campus from March 18, 2017 to March 19, 2017.

The two day event covered various talks and workshops along with dev-sprints to help newbies to contribute to various Open Source projects.

I also …

Event Report - PyCon Pune 2017

Sanyam Khurana — Sun, 19 Feb 2017 10:07:00 +0530

After PyCon India & PyDelhiConf; here comes another lovely Python Conference in India -- PyCon Pune. It was first year of the conference in 2017 and I feel really delighted for getting a chance to attend it. The conference was on 16th and 17th Feb followed by 2 days of Dev-Sprint on …

NIEC Activate Mozilla with WebVR

Sanyam Khurana — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 12:08:00 +0530

On Saturday, January 28, 2017, we had an event planned at Northern India Engineering College on Activate Mozilla Campaign. Our aim was to cover WebVR track under Build the Web activity.

The event was scheduled from 12:00 PM IST to 4:00 PM IST.

I reached the venue at …

Representing Mozilla in FOSS UnConference

Sanyam Khurana — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 11:53:00 +0530

On December 17, 2016; we had FOSS un-conference where all Open Source groups gathered to discuss about the FOSS culture. We had people from PyDelhi, PyData Delhi, Mozilla Delhi (MozPacers), LinuxChix India, Sympy, etc.

We had three talks scheduled:

Netfilters by Shyam Saini, Networking by Manpreet [:msn] & Deep learning by …

How to test your Ansible Deployment with Vagrant

Sanyam Khurana — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 00:53:00 +0530

When you start writing Ansible for automating your deployment, one common problem is about testing if it does work as you intend to do it. Some people prefer to do it directly on a server. But then it has all sorts of problems associated (for example when the no. of …

Talk on contributing to Mozilla Marionette

Sanyam Khurana — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 01:53:00 +0530

I've always felt that newbies find it very difficult to get started into any Open Source project. If we talk specifically about code-contribution; which is an essential part of the entire ecosystem, then the no. of people are not enough. I've always found myself surrounded by a bunch of folks …

Mozilla's Equal Rating Challenge

Sanyam Khurana — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 13:30:00 +0530

The event took place at Hotel Lalit, New Delhi on November 18, 2016. Once again we got a chance to meet Jochai (one of the Mozilla staff) after around 6 months and he recognized me :)

The event was powered by SFLC (Software Freedom Law Centre) & Mozilla. Local community volunteers (Mozpacers …

Mozilla Rep Mentorship Meeting 2

Sanyam Khurana — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 06:30:00 +0530

Today I had another online meeting with my Mozilla Reps Mentor Biraj from 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM.

Here are the Minutes of Meeting:

He reviewed initial set of goals I've set.
I told about my current contributions.
We discussed about conducting an online and an offline event.
I …

Mozilla @StoryMirror Youth Creative Conclave

Sanyam Khurana — Sat, 15 Oct 2016 21:30:00 +0530

We had an amazing event scheduled on October 8, 2016 at Hansraj college in Delhi University. I reached the venue at 10:00 AM where I found Anup and other Mozillians preparing for the event.

We had three talks scheduled. First one was by Anup; where he introducted people to …

Goals as a Mozilla Rep for fourth quarter of 2016!

Sanyam Khurana — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 02:42:00 +0530

I was given this task by my mentor to write down my goals as a Mozilla Rep and then track down my activities every quarter to know where I'm heading.

So, for the last quarter of 2016, the areas where I'd be focusing on are the following:

Contribute code actively …

Contributing more to Marionette and Firefox UI Tests

Sanyam Khurana — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 00:53:00 +0530

If you don't know about Marionette; you can read my previous blog post here.

I've been recently given some follow-up bugs by my mentor. I've just finished up fixing this bug: Add support for callbacks to restart() and quit() methods of Marionette. Now I've picked up a follow up bug …

Learning Django REST Framework

Sanyam Khurana — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 12:27:00 +0530

I'm currently reading the documentation of Django REST Framework; and in this post I'll mention few terms I've encountered and quick summary of what is it about so that I can refer to this later.

Note: I'm making these with reference to mostly JSON data format for ease of understanding …

Volunteering for PyCon India 2016

Sanyam Khurana — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 12:27:00 +0530

Going back in time; October 3, 2015 in Bangalore; Last day of PyCon India 2015; someone told -- "It takes 9 months to organize PyCon India"

At that time, 9 months looked like a lot of time to me and I thought may be 4-5 months should be good enough.

Coming …

Mozilla Rep Mentorship Meeting 1

Sanyam Khurana — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 21:30:00 +0530

Just had the very first Mozilla Rep Mentorship e-meet today. It was scheduled to be on 21/09/16 from 9:30 PM IST to 10:00 PM IST. But I reached home early and it was held from 9:00 PM to 9:30 PM IST.

Here are the …

Becoming a Mozilla Representative

Sanyam Khurana — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 14:53:00 +0530

Okay, this was kind of surprising. I applied for Mozilla Reps around 4 months ago but my application was put on hold since at that time, since Mozilla was revamping the Mozilla Reps program as Reps Next and there were not enough mentors available.

It so happened today, that I …

Getting started with Marionette

Sanyam Khurana — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 11:53:00 +0530

I've recently started contributing to Marionette. It is an automation driver for Mozilla's gecko engine. If you're familiar with tools like Selenium; then Marionette is almost along similar lines. It's written in Python and is easy to get started with. So if you're familiar with Python and looking to contribute …

PyDelhi Meet and Devsprint

Sanyam Khurana — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 17:48:00 +0530

So, I hurried to the venue for the meet from Kidzilla event, but I was late as expected :P

When I reached, Anuvrat was digging deep into module. I agree I couldn't grasp much, since I reached late.

After this we had a Dev Sprint for which we moved to …

KidZilla by MozPacers

Sanyam Khurana — Sun, 03 Apr 2016 12:13:00 +0530

On April 2, 2016 we had a day full of interactive learning with kids of Bal Sahyog Orphanage, Cannaught Place, Delhi.

I reached at Rajiv Chowk metro at 9:45 AM and found Kona, Saurabh, Kanika, Pushpita and Debarun there.

So, we tried to walk up to the venue and …

Moved to a static blog

Sanyam Khurana — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 01:46:00 +0530

Starting from today, my blog is now entirely shifted from ersanyamkhurana.wordpress.com to sanyamkhurana.com/blog

I already liked the idea of static blog and setting up blog for PyDelhi and Mozilla Delhi made me realized that I should too shift on using a static blog. It's so much …

Finally Mozilla Dev Tools Bug patched

Sanyam Khurana — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 00:53:00 +0530

Alright, finally it's done. I patched the Mozilla Dev Tools bug. with help of my mentor Patrick Brosset (pbro). He was the one who helped me with getting started to land my first patch in Mozilla-Central. He is indeed very helpful and I'm greatful to him for being my mentor …

PyDelhi Conference 2016

Sanyam Khurana — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 00:53:00 +0530

And here I am, at PyDelhi Conference, as a volunteer, as an attendee, as a speaker and what not?

So, I reached the venue at 7:30 AM and people were already there making arrangements. I and Rishabh started with final set-up regarding our workshop, and testing things out.

After …

Moz-Coffee v6 with Sara and Jochai

Sanyam Khurana — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 20:15:00 +0530

Well, this blog post would depict a very wonderful experience! This time, it's not just about MozCoffee v6, it would also depict the preparation phase for it.

Preparation Phase

So, one fine day, Anup (our community Lead) announces that we would have Mozilla Staff here in Delhi and we've to …

Patched first bug for mozilla-central

Sanyam Khurana — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 13:41:00 +0530

Well, everything seems difficult until you start!

How will I make a patch? Will I ever able to understand that code? Will I really able to do it?

Everyone has these questions in mind and various others, while struggling to contribute to a huge code-base like that of Mozilla. So …

MozPacers at MSIT

Sanyam Khurana — Sat, 30 Jan 2016 21:48:00 +0530

Our MozPacers (Mozilla Delhi) community conducted an event today at MSIT (Mahraja Surajmal Institute of Technology).

We planned various events for students and the itinerary is as follows:

Intro to Mozilla, it's mission and Open Web - Delivered by Bhuvnesh and Manraj

Promoting Womoz and gathering more women contributors - By Ashu …

Bootstrap Modal Scroll Bug on Chrome [Easy-Fix]

Sanyam Khurana — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:55:00 +0530

As usual, I was contributing more to the PyDelhi Conference project and saw that the code of conduct was really occupying a large space and wasn't looking good. I contacted theskumar on IRC and we decided to make some changes in the FAQ as well as Code of Conduct section …

Authenticating And Getting Info From Explara API

Sanyam Khurana — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:53:00 +0530

PyDelhi is organizing a mini PyCon this year with the name PyDelhi Conf. And we all are having a great time working behind the scenes to make it a success. I'm contributing to building up the website for the confrence (conference.pydelhi.org).

So, there was this task of fetching …

PyDelhi Birthday Bash!

Sanyam Khurana — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:52:00 +0530

And here it is! We just completed 1 year of regular meetups at PyDelhi. We organized various workshops, meet-ups, events etc. in the past one year.

We had the meet on 9th Jan, 2016. The venue was Fueled. We gathered there and started the introduction outside the office. After the …

How to clone a large repository using git

Sanyam Khurana — Mon, 28 Dec 2015 14:14:00 +0530

So, I was trying to clone the official Mozilla gecko repo and it had around 455182 commits.

As usual I executed on my terminal:

git clone https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev

Then it took whole night to get cloned. I was awake the whole night. At 5:20 AM, it …

Learning from Anup's MozFest Experience

Sanyam Khurana — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:20:00 +0530

(Image Courtesy: wiki.mozilla.org)

My journey in Mozilla has been quite awesome and interesting till now. I've come to learn a lot of things, met like-minded people, shared ideas with them, gave talks which helped a lot in improving upon my skills as an organizer, leader, speaker, programmer and …

FSA Community Engagement Meet-up

Sanyam Khurana — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 20:15:00 +0530

Ah, well, coudn't write about this, as I had my exams and project submissions. But yeah, here it is. #FSADreamTeam. This would be a quick post.

On November 14 and 15, we had people for FSA Community Engagement here in Delhi.

We had Santosh, Kritika and Tanay here in Delhi …

Mozilla Dev Sprint v3.0

Sanyam Khurana — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 16:38:00 +0530

Writing after a long time. Have been occupied by a lot of things and that's why the official site of Mozilla Delhi, mozpacers.org, (Yes, we got that domain a while ago) was never being ready for release.

The event section integration and stuff was causing a lot of problem …

Mozilla Stumbling in Jaipur

Sanyam Khurana — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 00:21:00 +0530

I got to Jaipur Stumbling trip which was majorly sponsored by Mozilla. Here is a full detail about our journey. Our main motive was to collect at least 10k reports for the upcoming Mozilla Stumbler Project.

DAY 0

Starting of my journey became complex as some last minute changes caused …

Journey To Being a Mozillian

Sanyam Khurana — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 15:27:00 +0530

Few months back, despite of all odds, I attended an event by Mozilla which was WebMaker event, where I along with my friend Vikram (I literally had to force him to attend, since the event was far away and we were tired on that day), visited to know more about …

Just my inputs on how JMI Internship fair could be better!

Sanyam Khurana — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 21:21:00 +0530

Hey guys,

First of all, thank you for providing everyone "opportunity" for internships.

Next, I realize, that all the volunteers were really hard working. But unfortunately, all the hard-work was actually not upto the mark just because they were actually doing redundant things and increasing their work.

Here are some …

Sieve of Eratosthenes - An efficient way to solve problems about Prime numbers

Sanyam Khurana — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 13:33:00 +0530

Long ago, I think 2-3 years ago, I came to know about Project Euler Problems, I made an account, solved 1 or 2 problems, and then never tried them.

Now, I decided to give them a try again. I was solving Project Euler 10 Problem which states that:

The sum …

Back to Work after 5th sem End Term Exams!

Sanyam Khurana — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 14:52:00 +0530

So, my 5th term end semester exams didn't went well enough! I was just frustrated about the subjects I was made to study. Even the computer related subjects are taught with an aim to make students just pass the exams. Cram it, give exam, pass it and you know it …

Be Inspired! Keep working hard; Never give up!

Sanyam Khurana — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 22:20:00 +0530

Well, I just turned on Facebook for a few minutes and interestingly found a link "Is it too late to start programming at 17 if you want to be a top programmer?" pointing to a post on Quora! I read it.

And, that's something really awesome!

Believe me, it's very …

Time to wrap up the mess!

Sanyam Khurana — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 00:11:00 +0530

Finally got some time to write here. This one would be a really quick post. I have been really busy from past few months. A hurricane of work just kept me crunched every now and then.

Had to complete the summer training project report, write tutorial on my own blog …

People: Why You NO Share Your Knowledge

Sanyam Khurana — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 17:17:00 +0530

People are so much reluctant to share their knowledge. Like seriously?

The reasons they gave is, we spend money in getting it, why we should give it for free?

Well, can't believe why they do exist. If you don't want to share your so called "Paid knowledge" for free, then …

It's getting hectic day by day

Sanyam Khurana — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 22:21:00 +0530

Glad that I took some time, to write here. My schedule is getting hectic day by day. Only 4-5 hours sleep everyday. I'm tired, very tired but one thing is going to happen sure shot. I'd like to die trying rather than giving up :)

My day starts with getting up …

How DGPLUG training is proving beneficial to me?

Sanyam Khurana — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 12:09:00 +0530

Well, at this time, most of you have guessed I'm going to talk about some sort of training, but what is exactly this "DGPLUG"? What is this training all about? Well, let me tell you my story.

So, it was when I was ultra-busy in my 4th semester exams, have …