16th May '08Today's Top Blog Posts on Python
1. Another DrProject Design Question
We’re pleased to welcome Liz Blankenship, a Season of Usability intern, to the DrProject team. Liz, a grad student in HCI, is going to help us redesign DrProject’s admin interface. Along the way, I’m hoping she…
2. IronPython-URLs: Games Programming with IronPython and OpenTk
There are lots of good options for games programming with CPython, so it is nice to also have choices for IronPython. One .NET framework for games programming that boasts of working well with IronPython is…
3. Elegant XML parsing using the ElementTree Module
Mark Mruss Note: This article was first published the October 2007 issue of Python Magazine XML is everywhere. It seems you can’t do much these days unless you utilize XML in one way or another. Fortunately, Python…
4. Small Victories
Yesterday I successfully used map() and lambda without having to look @ the documentation (and yet I link to the documentation)!Something like:some_url = “http://www.foo.com/”things = [”foo”, “bar”
5. Ian Bicking: a blog :: Governance
It occurred to me… Django is something like a dictatorship… or maybe an oligarchy. At first it seems like Pylons is the same… but no. Pylons is clearly feudal. I lord over Paste, WebOb, FormEncode. Mike Bayer…
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6. Ian Bicking: Choosing a License
I thought I’d take some time to talk about licensing.Licensing is something that F/OSS programmers talk about a lot. There’s two major categories of licenses:The GPL, aka Copyleft. You must distribute source with…
7. A quote from Why the lucky stiff
What amazes me is how close Ruby 1.9 bytecode and Python 2.5 bytecode are. Some things translate almost directly. [.] And, really, if that’s true (and I vouch that it is truly, truly true,) then how are Python and R…
8. Yep, More Books
is The ThoughtWorks Anthology , a collection of essays from developers and managers at a consulting firm that counts among its staff several luminaries from the design patterns/refactoring/agile world. Some chapters,…
9. Doug Hellmann: PyMOTW: cmd
The cmd module contains a base class for creating command interpreters.Module: cmdPurpose: Create line-oriented command processors.Python Version: 1.4 and later, with some additions in 2.3Description:The cmd module…
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10. Armin Ronacher: rst2html + git == personal wiki
This Makefile:RSTOPTS=–time –link-stylesheet –stylesheet=style.cssSOURCES=$(wildcard *.rst)HTML=$(foreach file,$(SOURCES),_build/$(basename $(file)).html)all: html_build/%.html: %.rst rst2html.py $(RSTOPTS) $^
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11. Revisiting Pfam alignments: using defaultdicts, chains …
I haven’t posted in a while, so let’s get back to the last topic covered here, merging sequences from Pfam alignments. Two comments to my last post suggested some changes to the original code, and both comments made…
12. Greg Wilson: A Question for the Class
To what degree (if any) are the software developers who wrote the code involved in this tragedy responsible for what happened? To what degree (if any) should they be held accountable? Compare you answer to what…
13. Twisting the Planet
As Steve blogged the other day, we've been jamming on some Twisted lately. But it's not the kind of thing you usually hear from us. We're not doing something esoteric and mind-blowing. We're doing…
14. The Manchurian Minister
In reference to James Snell's recent post and subsequent commentsabout Obama and Jeremiah Wright. This is a Big Media misdirection.What about McCain's follies, e.g. singing “Bomb, bomb, bom, bomb. bombIran” to…
15. Making it stick.: Huh?: "The fact that it runs on its own interpreter, bad."
What is this obsession with some virtual machine being the one, true byte code? The Java Virtual Machine, the CLR, Parrot, whatever. Give it up.I agree with Steve Vinoski.The fact that it runs on its own interpreter, g…
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