1,146 posts tagged “python”
The Python programming language.
2007
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.
Pickles Begone. Barry Warsaw’s notes on adding SQLAlchemy persistence to Mailman.
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.”
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.
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.
mimeparse.py (via) Parsing mime-types is harder than you might think.
supervisor2. I haven’t tried this yet, but looks like a decent process monitoring tool. It even has an XML-RPC interface.
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.
Writing a Jokosher extension. I like the way API calls are made through an API object passed to the extension’s startup function.
2006
killableprocess.py. “I have created a python module which can launch a subprocess, wait for the process with a timeout, and kill that process and all of its sub-subprocesses correctly, on Windows, Mac, and Linux.”
The Daily Python-URL. Python’s number one news source, now powered by Django.
__builtins__ usage. Avoid using __builtins__ if you want your code to be compatible with IronPython.
Meta-classes Made Easy. Fuzzyman introduces a metaclass factory for applying a decorator to every method of a class.
Dependency injection is the enterprisey name for trampling over namespaces with reckless abandon.
[Python-3000] Refactoring tool available. Guido’s initial work on a tool for converting Python 2.x code to Python 3K.
Statement Functions. Smart workaround for the lack of multi-line lambdas in Python.
100% Python SCGI implementation. SCGI is like FastCGI but simpler.
python-cluster. Fantastic interface design—pass a list and a function and you’re done.
Incompatible SQLite in OS X and Python. I’ve hit this problem; James has the solution.
Introducing WSGI: Python’s Secret Web Weapon. Every Python web developer should understand WSGI.
What I’m excited about, post-conference edition
Wow, I’ve had a really busy month. I’ve attended (and spoken at) BarCamp London, Media in Transition, d.Construct, RailsConf Europe, Euro Foo and EuroOSCON. All were excellent, and each one nicely complemented the others. I’m exhausted. I think my brain is full.
[... 377 words]The Screening Room #8: IronPython. Screamingly cool demo, with commentary from Jim Hugunin and Jon Udell.
The Screening Room #8: IronPython. Screamingly cool demo, with commentary from Jim Hugunin and Jon Udell.
HOWTO: Adding an RSS feed to a Subversion Server. Using post-commit hooks and some Python.
YDN Python Developer Center. Launched today: tips and tutorials on accessing Yahoo! Web services from Python.
The YDN Python Developer Center
I recently had the opportunity to put together the Python Developer Center for the Yahoo! Developer Network. YDN is one of my favourite parts of Yahoo! so I jumped at the chance, and the resulting mini-site is now online (YDN blog post here).
[... 235 words]WPHP. Run PHP under your Python WSGI app. Not nearly as crazy as it sounds.