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Python User Groups: Notes from the SoCal Piggies meeting on May 1st

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This is overdue by a week, but better late than never.We had our SoCal Piggies meeting last Thursday May 1st at the offices of Gorilla Nation, who graciously provided the conference room and the food for the meeting. A…

Ian Bicking: a blog :: Monkeypatching and dead ends

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Bill de hÓra and then Patrick Logan picked up on an old post of mine about monkeypatching.
Patrick’s reply:

I know next to nothing about the specific problems the Ruby and Python folks are encountering with…

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Ian Bicking: Python HTML Parser Performance

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In preparation for my PyCon talk on HTML I thought I’d do a performance comparison of several parsers and document models.
The situation is a little complex because there’s different steps in handling HTML:

Parse…

Ian Bicking: a blog :: PyCon Talks

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I gave my talk at PyCon this year on HTML processing in Python. It seemed to be well received, but I did see some comments on the web from people who wanted more technical content. The presentation I ended up giving…

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Ian Bicking: a blog :: Governance

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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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Ian Bicking: “Something Must Be Done”

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Listening to Tavis Smiley’s show tonight, and the segment My America where they talked about gun violence. At one point they quote a man who lost his brother to gun violence:

You can be in a club and bump into…