1,244 posts tagged “python”
The Python programming language.
2006
The Screening Room #8: IronPython. Screamingly cool demo, with commentary from Jim Hugunin and Jon Udell.
The Screening Room #8: IronPython. Screamingly cool demo, with commentary from Jim Hugunin and Jon Udell.
HOWTO: Adding an RSS feed to a Subversion Server. Using post-commit hooks and some Python.
YDN Python Developer Center. Launched today: tips and tutorials on accessing Yahoo! Web services from Python.
The YDN Python Developer Center
I recently had the opportunity to put together the Python Developer Center for the Yahoo! Developer Network. YDN is one of my favourite parts of Yahoo! so I jumped at the chance, and the resulting mini-site is now online (YDN blog post here).
[... 235 words]WPHP. Run PHP under your Python WSGI app. Not nearly as crazy as it sounds.
Python Web Developer Appliance. A VMWare virtual machine with Python web developer frameworks pre-installed for you.
Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle. 100 lines of Python illustrating some key concepts in AI.
Exciting stuff in Python 2.5
Python 2.5 alpha 1 is out, and as usual the What’s New in Python 2.5 document provides a pleasant overview of the new features. There are some real treats in there. While I’m hoping that the syntax for conditional expressions will grow on me, I’m looking forward to Partial function application becoming a common Python idiom. Relative imports are going to make Django applications a lot easier to redistribute, and I can’t wait to see all the crazy hacks that result from the introduction of coroutines.
[... 291 words]Backing Up Flickr Photos with Amazon S3. 25 lines of Python.
BitBucket—Experimenting with Amazon S3 Service in Python (via) Nice pythonic API.
2005
Python Creator Guido van Rossum now working at Google. Google are taking dynamic languages really seriously.
Things I learned at EuroOSCON
Last week was the first ever O’Reilly European Open Source Convention, held in the magnificent NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam. It was the first big budget conference I’d been too (previously I’ve stuck to less expensive affairs such as SxSW Interactive and PyCon) but the money seems to have been well spent. The venue was fantastic and there was a great line-up of speakers, keynotes and panels.
[... 878 words]Python programming job at Columbia University. Ignore the jargon—a little birdie tells me this is a Python job.
[pypy-dev] PyPy released! A full Python implementation written in Python.
Stricter Whitespace Enforcement. Finally! Guido tightens the rules on whitespace.
Five-minute Multimethods in Python. A nice decorator example from Guido.
scrape.py. A clever Python screen-scraping module, with similarities to WWW::Mechanize.
2004
Python Grimoire. How to perform common tasks in Python.
Python Parsing Tools (via) Ned’s compilation of Python parsing libraries.
Ned Batchelder: A quest for pythonic interfaces. More Ned on interfaces.
Python Memory Management (via) It’s not quite as straight forward as you might have thought.
Cache decorator in Python 2.4 (via) Nothing like a good example to understand why decorators are a cool language feature.
Running Pydoc under mod_python
I’ve written about pydoc before. In my opinion it’s one of Python’s best kept secrets: a way of instantly browsing the properties, methods and documentation strings of any module available to the Python environment. It can even run a local HTTP server to allow for easy browsing of available documentation.
[... 372 words]Python in Air Traffic Control (via) Python goes mission critical.
Python will assimilate you (via) “From the wind-up school of technology strategizing”
The Observer Pattern in Python (via) Makes smart use of weak references.
Backporting from Python 2.3 to Python 2.2
We have a home-grown templating system at work, which I intend to dedicate an entry to some time in the future. We originally wrote it in Python 2.2, but upgraded to Python 2.3 a while ago and have since been evolving our code in that environment. Today I found a need to load the most recent version of our templating system on to a small, long neglected application that had been running the original version ever since it had enough features to be usable.
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