Simon Willison’s Weblog

boto. Python library for accessing Amazon’s S3, SQS and EC2 Web Services, with excellent documentation.

# 11th February 2007, 12:17 am / amazon, aws, boto, ec2, python, s3, sqs

Parallel Python. A simple mechanism for running Python code in parallel across multiple processes and/or machines, based on submitting jobs and retrieving their results.

# 9th February 2007, 1:51 am / parallelpython, python

Mono 1.2.3 has been released (via) More importantly, it ships with IronPython in the form of Seo Sanghyeon’s Community Edition.

# 9th February 2007, 12:55 am / ironpython, mono, python

TurboGears and Pylons (a technical comparison). Ian Bicking explores the differences between the two, and finds that the most significant is probably CherryPy v.s. Paste.

# 7th February 2007, 1:51 pm / cherrypy, paste, pylons, python, turbogears

IronPython URLs. Mark Rees’ and Seo Sanghyeon’s collection of interesting URLs posted to the IronPython mailing list.

# 4th February 2007, 5:25 pm / ironpython, python

nose. Really nice Python unit testing tool—run ’nosetests somedir’ and it finds and executes every unittest (and test_like function) it can find in that directory tree.

# 1st February 2007, 2:20 am / nose, python, unittests

Spelling correction using the Python Natural Language Toolkit. Uses porter stemming to implement a search engine ’did you mean’ feature based on the Brown Corpus.

# 31st January 2007, 10:07 pm / browncorpus, natural-language, nltk, porterstemming, python

Pickles Begone. Barry Warsaw’s notes on adding SQLAlchemy persistence to Mailman.

# 23rd January 2007, 1:43 pm / barry-warsaw, mailman, python, sqlalchemy

CSS library for Python (via) “A Python package to parse and build CSS Cascading Style Sheets. Partly implements the DOM Level 2 Style Stylesheets and CSS interfaces.”

# 15th January 2007, 2:32 am / css, python

Apache Solr 1.1. Solr is the search Web Service built on top of Lucene. The latest release introduces JSON, Python and Ruby response formats in addition to XML.

# 13th January 2007, 1:16 am / json, lucene, python, ruby, search, solr, webservice, xml

What Python looks like naked. Michal Wallace has been doing some really interesting work writing purely functional code in Python. His latest experiment replaces all of the basic Python statements with equivalent functions.

# 10th January 2007, 11:22 pm / functional, michal-wallace, python

mimeparse.py (via) Parsing mime-types is harder than you might think.

# 8th January 2007, 6:43 pm / james-bennett, mimetypes, python

supervisor2. I haven’t tried this yet, but looks like a decent process monitoring tool. It even has an XML-RPC interface.

# 8th January 2007, 1:19 am / python, supervisor, xml-rpc

Why doesn’t Python have more data format readers in the stdlib? I for one would love to see simplejson included in the standard library, with or without a C implementation.

# 8th January 2007, 1:03 am / json, python, stdlib

Writing a Jokosher extension. I like the way API calls are made through an API object passed to the extension’s startup function.

# 7th January 2007, 10:25 pm / api, jokosher, python, stuart-langridge