The Voidspace Techie Blog:
Big personal news; I've changed jobs. After more than three years working with Resolver Systems I felt it was time to broaden my development experience. ... [347 words]
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Python | Dev:
Martin v. Löwis wrote: >>> This is indeed intentional: people like you won't upload packages to >>> PyPI, nor will they take part in the rating syste. (Read More)
life is short - you need Python!:
Recently I have written a Python script to update status message in twitter using their api. Let me share the code here:import urllibimport urllib2import base64import httplibimport socket/* authenticate module is used for http basic authentication. found in 'urllib2 missing manual' */ def authenticate(username, password): (Read More)
Python | Dev:
Sriram, > > Please take this discussion to catalog-sig - python-dev isn't the place > (the fact that many of us didn't immediately know the *right* pl. (Read More)
jessenoller.com:
There is a Poll running on the front of the PyPI page – you have to log in to see it/vote. This poll is asking a question about the new feature(s) of allowing users to comment/5-star-rate a given package in the index.Some of the Pros/Cons have already been added to the python wiki here, as well as this bug report here. The (Read More)
Simon Willison's Weblog:
How to Make a US County Thematic Map Using Free Tools. This is the trick I’ve been using to generate choropleths at the Guardian for the past year: figure out the preferred colours for a set of data in a Python script and then rewrite an SVG file to colour in the areas. I use ElementTree rather than BeautifulSoup but the te (Read More)
life is short - you need Python!:
Today I was trying to scrape a Spanish site and got into trouble with some Spanish characters. I had to parse some messages from that Spanish website and post into twitter using my Python script. But for some reasons Spanish characters didn't show up in twitter status updates.I was in some trouble with the following error m (Read More)
Python | Dev:
Hi, I was wondering what's the status of PEP 382. Is anyone (MvL?) is going to start to work on its implementation for Python 2.7/3.2 inclusion ? Re. (Read More)
Python | Dev:
Hi, I think http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3101/ is too liberal with the choice of fill characters for numerical values. As far as I can see, thi. (Read More)
Python | Dev:
Stop email Sent from my BlackBerry® powered by Sinyal Kuat INDOSAT -----Original Message----- From: python-dev-request@python.org Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2. (Read More)
Simon Willison's Weblog:
A history of Python packaging. A comprehensive history by Martijn Faassen, who argues that the existing set of tools tools works fine and has been working fine for several years.
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Python | Dev:
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:10 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >> >> Anatoly's question is actually a fair one for python-dev - we'r. (Read More)
Simon Willison's Weblog:
node.js. “Evented I/O for V8 JavaScript”—a JavaScript environment built on top of the super-fast V8 engine which provides event-based IO functionality for building highly concurrent TCP and HTTP servers. The API design is superb—everything is achieved using JavaScript events and callbacks (even regular file IO) and the smal (Read More)
jessenoller.com:
PEP 3003: “Python Language Moratorium” has been accepted. After several weeks of discussion, Guido switched the bit this morning.This PEP effectively freezes the syntax and following items:New built-insGeneral language semanticsNew __future__ importsThis does not apply to the standard library; adding methods to builtins, or (Read More)