Simon Willison’s Weblog

Simple Top-Down Parsing in Python. Eye-opening tutorial on building a recursive descent parser for Python, in Python that uses top-down operator precedence.

# 19th July 2008, 11:37 pm / compilers, effbot, fredrik-lundh, parsing, python, recursivedescent

Some Notes on Tim Bray’s Wide Finder Benchmark. Fredrik Lundh demonstrates some Python ninja techniques for parsing log files using multiple cores (and eventually memory mapping).

# 7th October 2007, 1:06 am / benchmark, effbot, fredrik-lundh, mmap, multicore, python, tim-bray

Thread Synchronization Mechanisms in Python. Locks, RLocks, Semaphores, Events and Conditions as explained by Fredrik Lundh.

# 29th July 2007, 9:32 pm / conditions, effbot, events, fredrik-lundh, locks, python, rlocks, semaphores, threading, tutorial

The Daily Python-URL. Python’s number one news source, now powered by Django.

# 22nd December 2006, 11:39 pm / django, effbot, python