Simon Willison’s Weblog

Pvote (via) Electronic voting machine software in 460 lines of highly readable Python (using Pygame), implemented by Ka-Ping Yee for his doctoral dissertation. Demonstrates prerendering, where as much of the UI as possible is defined in a separate ballot definition file.

# 1:04 pm / electronicvoting, evoting, ka-ping-yee, pvote, pygame, python

Speeding up dateutil: Python’s heapq module turns minutes into seconds. Neat case study in data structure optimisation.

# 1:07 pm / brian-beck, datastructures, dateutil, heapq, python