Simon Willison’s Weblog

django-boss (via) Management commands are one of the few bits of Django that I still have to look up in the documentation whenever I write them. django-boss offers a smart alternative to regular management commands, based around decorators and taking the containing app as the first argument.

# 1st June 2010, 10:02 am / decorators, django, djangoboss, python, zachary-voase, recovered

Fixing Django Management Commands. Zachary Voase proposes dramatically improving Django’s management command API for Django 1.3. I’m in favour—management commands are one of the only APIs in Django that I have to look up every single time I use. My optfunc library was written partially with management commands in mind—Zachary favours the argparse library.

# 9th December 2009, 8:41 am / django, managementcommands, zachary-voase, argparse, optfunc, python

disturbyte’s zenqueue. Simple, tiny and fast Python message queue server built on top of coroutines and Eventlet, using JSON over TCP as the message format. I’m impressed with how potentially useful this looks considering the small amount of code. The author benchmarks it at 28 thousand messages/second.

# 11th May 2009, 1:27 pm / zenqueue, message-queues, python, eventlet, coroutines, json, zachary-voase, github