Articles by PLANET-PYTHON

Ruslan Spivak: Logsna – a sane log output format

Good old log files are still the most reliable, versatile, and useful sources of information. When they are also human-readable and easy to use with standard Unix tools liketailandgrepthey are even more useful. We all know that especially in time of stress...

Baiju Muthukadan: BangPypers meetup (Yesterday)

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Yesterday we had BangPypers meeting at ZeOmega office. There was 10 members came for the meeting. There was no specific agenda for the meeting, we discussed some general topics related to Python.I demonstrated the installation of Salt in Windows XP (http://saltstack.org/)....

Kay Schluehr: Greedy grammars and Any

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. in your regular expression I only vaguely remember my first encounter with a parser generator which must by dated back to the late 1990s. I guess it wasSparkby John Aycock, an Early parser. What puzzled me back then was the need to be explicit down to...

Doug Hellmann: virtualenvwrapper 3.4

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What is virtualenvwrappervirtualenvwrapperis a set of extensions to Ian Bicking'svirtualenvtool. The extensions include wrappers for creating and deletingvirtual environments and otherwise managing your development workflow,making it easier to work on more...

Hynek Schlawack: My Road to the Python Commit Bit

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Like manyFOSSfans, I always wanted to be an active part of the movement. My lastbig projectwas for theAmigain the past millennium though. Nowadays I'm happy that after years of small-scale dabbling on various projects I've found my haven. I'd...

Calvin Spealman: I Read Things On The Internet

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It is true, from time to time I read things on the internet. What has been bothering me lately is the feeling that all of these ideas I'm consuming and all of my responses to them are just lost into a sea churning together everything into the unidentifiable...

Twisted Matrix Labs: Congratulations and welcome to Twisted's summer interns

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Twisted is excited to be supporting 4 full-time summer interns from around the world through 2 internship programs this summer. Google Summer of Code internships Expanded Endpoints Support, by Ashwini Oruganti (IRC nick ashfall) Ashwini joins us...

David Grant: eyefiserver2 - A standalone Eye-Fi Server in python, for linux

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I recently forked the defunct eyefiserver project. The new project is calledeyefiserver2. It is a server for eye-fi cards that runs on Linux using Python, however, it should be possible to run it on any OS, I just haven't tested it on anything other than Linux.

Mike Driscoll: Creating QR Codes with Python

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The other day, I thought it would be fun to create a little program that could generate QR codes and show them onscreen with wxPython. Of course, I wanted to do it all with Python, so after a little looking, I came across 3 candidates: python-qrcodeon github pyqrcodeon...

Shannon -jj Behrens: Code Reuse has Finally Arrived...Obviously!

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I got into a discussion about code reuse with my co-worker, Jarek. I remember reading books on object oriented programming from a few decades ago in which OOP promised to increase code reuse. A lot of people doubted that serious code reuse would ever happen....