The more I use StackOverflow the more I love it. Its rammed full of gems like this: Understanding Python Decorators. In answer to a users question about how decorators work, e-satis has gone way beyond the call of duty and written a full blown tutorial complete with exercises. Its by far the best explanation of [...]
Here’s a video of Guido giving a talk on the history and philosophy of Python. Total length: 1hr:50m.
If BeautifulSoup has ever felt unwieldily or you’ve looked upon Ruby’s NokoGiri with envy then you may find this funky Python library interesting. PyQuery brings jQuery selector syntax to Python. If you’re already familiar with jQuery selectors you’ll be right at home. Even if you don’t its easy enough to pick up. Here’s a quick [...]
…Ruby. One thing I envy in Ruby is the simplicity of so many of their libraries – both core and 3rd party. Python’s urllib2 never really felt natural but here is a solution. Requests: “HTTP for humans”. An example will do it justice: r = requests.get(‘http://www.straw-dogs.co.uk’) r.content Wow – clean, simple and quick. Add to [...]
Seems fitting for today. Credit to rkem’s wife via Reddit.
Mac’s are not a panacea for programming/web development. There! I said it. I feel like an alcoholic finally admitting he has a problem. So desperate to cling to the ideal that Macs make the perfect development machines but I was kidding myself all along. As a web developer/coder I used Windows and Linux (mainly Debian, [...]
This was lifted mainly from a Stack Overflow thread which I discovered from one of my favourite sites: Reddit /r/python. It details a few paths people can take to go form Python beginner to expert. Its one of the most insightful answers/postings I’ve come across on SO. Here’s the summary – link at the end: [...]
Every time I’ve seen one of these “vs” posts its gone into great length about the philosophy behind such and such. You’ll never convince someone based on ‘religious argument’. So I’m going to take a different approach here and state who does what and hopefully the weight of ‘who does what’ will make the point [...]
I was having a chat on the MicroSoft Networks fancy comms protocol. Aka: MSN. Along came someone with an opinion. As is customary I shot it down with wild abandon!! The quickie backstory: I suggested Python is better than Ruby. They argued using two example pictures – see below. Rubyists I Said: The Ruby pic: [...]
I’ve been looking up hill and down dale for a good (Python-based – fanboy!! Woo!!) log analyser and monitor for Apache. It looks like I’ve found one – and awesome it is too! wtop is by far the best I’ve come across of the options available and I’m not just saying that because its Python [...]
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