The Daily Python-URL
Daily Sporadic news from the Python universe, presented by your friends at PythonWare.
2010-03-28
Blogs of Note: Daily Python-URL #
2010-01-01
Guido van Rossum: #20yearsago I created Python. #
2009-08-11
Steve Holden: People Using Python ["The Python Software Foundation has embarked on a mission to find out more about Python users. We want to know as much about the organizations that use Python as possible. If you want to give us information about any Python usage at all (even organizations other than the one you work for) please fill out this form. We don't even need your details, and we'll filter for duplicates."] #
2009-05-27
Guido van Rossum: So you want to learn Python? #
2009-03-29
Andy Smith: Beards of Python #
2009-03-28
Andrew Dalke: Python 0.9.1p1 #
2009-03-20
Zed Shaw: One Laptop Battery Later And I'm A Django Fan ["One laptop battery later, and I've completed teh django tutorial. Man django is *very* nice."] #
2009-03-12
Thomas Guest: Longest common subsequence ["In this episode we’ll discuss an elegant algorithm which solves our particular problem as a special case. On the way we’ll visit dynamic programming, Python decorators, version control and genetics."] #
2009-02-16
Steve Holden: Help Publicize PyCon ["It's going to be difficult to get PyCon to exceed last year's numbers given the parlous state of the economy. One way you can help is to male yourself a part of its publicity campaign."] #
2009-01-28
Simon Wittber: Giant, Python Powered Robots. ["These are the robots I've been working on for the last 12 months. They each weigh about 11 tonnes and have a 17 meter reach. The control system is written in Python, with small sections of C which run in hard-real-time to guarantee safety."] #
2009-01-13
Guido van Rossum: The History of Python ["A series of articles on the history of the Python programming language and its community."] #
2008-10-30
Stani Michiels: How to make money with free software... ["The Dutch Ministry of Finance organized an architecture competition for which a selected group of architectural offices (unstudio, nox, ...) and artists were invited, including myself. The goal of the competition was not to design a building, but the new 5 euro commemorative coin with the theme 'Netherlands and Architecture'. The winner will be rewarded with a nice price, but most of all with the honor: his design will be realized and will be a legal coin within the Netherlands."] #
2008-09-25
Ask a Google engineer: How would you sort 1 million 32-bit integers in 2MB of RAM using Python? [see also] [see also] #
2008-09-22
Eli Golovinsky: Unicode and permalinks ["The idea of a permalink is to take the title (of a blog post or a test) and replace any characters that aren't numbers or letters with an underscore or a hyphen. Using this simple scheme, 'Unicode and permalinks' becomes 'unicode-and-permalinks', which is quite suitable for use in a URL. The implementation is a simple regular expression /.../ While this code works perfectly for the English language, it doesn’t work at all if string is a Unicode string containing something in Hebrew, Russian or Polish - language that some of our customers use. And so, I set out to write code that will essentially behave like the regular expression above, but will work for letters and numbers in all the languages of the world."] #
2008-09-21
Rob Hudson: Introducing the Django Debug Toolbar ["The Django Debug Toolbar is a configurable set of panels that display various debug information about the current request/response. It is a small toolbar that, when activated, situates itself in the top-right location of the browser window. When particular panels are clicked, more details about that panel's content are displayed."] #
2008-09-20
Ronald Loui: In Praise of Scripting: Real Programming Pragmatism ["But there is emerging consensus in the scripting community that Python is the right choice for freshman programming. Ruby would also be a defensible choice. Python and Ruby have the enviable properties that almost no one dislikes them, and almost everyone respects them. Both languages support a wide variety of programming styles and paradigms and satisfy practitioners and theoreticians equally. Both languages are carefully enough designed that 'correct' programming practices can be demonstrated and high standards of code quality can be enforced. The fact that Google stands by Python is an added motivation for undergraduate majors."] #
2008-09-19
Mark Seaborn: 'Introducing CapPython ["/.../ Python has a convention for private attributes of objects which is widely used. Attributes that start with an underscore are private. /.../ CapPython proposes that we enforce this convention by defining a subset of Python to enforce it. The hope is that this subset could be an object-capability language. Hopefully we can do this in such a way that you can get encapsulation by default and still have fairly idiomatic Python code."] #
2008-09-18
Jesse Noller: The cost of (not) testing software ["As a long-time automation-engineer/test-focused guy I've pondered the great existential question of "how much testing" is enough for awhile. More recently, I've started focusing on the cost of not testing a product."] #
2008-09-16
Kevin Teague I want a pony: Django Cheeseshop ["As primarily a Zope/Plone/Grok developer, I thought I'd share some of my experiences in working with the python packaging, dependencies and builds aspects. From my perspective, packaging and deploying Python applications are one of the areas of Python that could use the most improvement - there is a tonne of good and interesting work out there already, but the approachability of this ecosystem can be fairly challenging."] #
Florent Aide: TurboGears 1.0.7 released ["I am pleased to announce the release of TurboGears 1.0.7, a new stable release that fixes even more bugs. If you tried 1.0.6 it is recommended you upgrade to 1.0.7 because is fixes an issue which was introduced in 1.0.6 and resulted in errors when using the identity framework to redirect on error pages. 1.0.x users are encouraged to upgrade their applications to this release."] #
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