http://www.aquarionics.com/category/Python en-gb Aquarion (nicholas@aquarionics.com) Site Admin (nicholas@aquarionics.com) Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:08:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2006/10/29/Djingle_Django_Scarecrow One of the concepts you may run into if you read into Python and its fans in great depth (and here I mean Python of the programming type rather than the Monty type) is that of “Guido’s Time Machine”, the number of times when you are thinking “Would it be nice if Python did this…” and you suddenly find that yes, that’s exactly how Python does it, to the... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2005/05/01/Aquaintances_2 Aquaintances 2 is an XML Feed reader for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Apple OSX. It will support baysian filtering of posts – meaning posts you are more interested in will float to the top of your reading lists – as well as regex field matching. It is built in GTK/Python (on top of LibGlade) using the Mozilla Firefox GTK bindings. It parses feeds with the Ultra Liberal Feed Parser,... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2005/04/02/Project_Scout Somewhat to my suprise, I have recieved not one, but two patches to open source projects that I run. That is that gilmae submitted a better install document for AqWiki, and John Meadows has submitted a new version of the viewer file for MusicDB Flush with this success, I’ve started a new project. Well, two. Threeish, really. First, I’ve gone back to the base system that Cantrip... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2005/01/15/Mounting_Python How do you work with Python and web development? Do you use quixote, mod_python, normal CGI, Zope or something I’ve never heard of? Why do you use that instead of something else? http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2004/12/10/Vampire%3A_The_Maskerade%3A_Bloodlines._Plus%3A_Python (Too much punctuation in one title, perhaps?) Aquarion returns from playing Bloodlines Mandy_Away: good? Aquarion: Sort of Aquarion: The story is well done, the characters are very well done, and I'm enjoying it. Aquarion: And it uses the HL2 engine, so it looks cool Aquarion: OTOH, it runs like a dog (Even though HL2 - which is far more visually complicated - glides) Aquarion: and... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2004/09/22/Cantrip_Diary_-_ZopeTastic Okay, so my new workplace use Zope, so it’s probably a good idea for me to use that as a framework. I mean, enough people use it for it not to be too bad, right? Dear god does it suck. I mean, Whales though really thin gauze, it sucks that badly. I got it working on my local network after swearing at it quite loudly. It’s own personal religion of “Not Invented Here” is... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2004/09/10/The_explaination_%5Band%5D_Python After a number of similer requests, I’ve done a Goodbye Browserangel FAQ at holistic. I leave BA on Friday 15th October, I enter Those Who Evolve so that’ll be fun. Today I’ve spent attempting to work out how to do Python Web Apps sensibly without being tied to Zope. I’m grasping the Python Way, I think, but I still think in PHP and Web Dev terms, so actually learning... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2004/08/08/Sunday_Morning_%5Band%5D_Python Saturday we had a barbeque. People came around, we played games, we ate home made burgers, nice sausages and barbequed bananas. We dragged people though the streets of Letchworth, forcing them against their will to buy sweets from the World’s Nicest Sweetshop. Truely, we are bad people. Today, being Sunday, I rose late (10 am being late to my commuter-bound sleep patterns), put some... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2004/06/06/PFd4-II_Design_Diary_-_Part_One%3A_Start_of_a_Brand_New_World In the first part of a brand new series, I'm going to document the entire process of getting a web-app working. I've been promising a new version of PFd4 for a while now. I have also been meaning to learn Python properly, so I've decided to combine these two projects into one handy package. PFd4 was originally concieved when 2d10 - which my girlfriend and a number of my other friends were... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2004/05/11/Python_annoyance Given the following code: def index(): try: import MySQLdb except: return "Couldn't import MySQL module" return "Yay Workyness" inside a mod_python instance, is there any reason why it should return “Yay Workyness” and “Couldn’t import MySQL module” in roughly equal amounts? (MySQLdb in this case is a sub... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2004/05/10/Accomplish Todays accomplishment: XML + XSLT + Python = HTML (I should point out that the above has required my relearning Python from scratch – previous efforts have been basically PHP in Python – learning XSLT, and learning how mod_python works. Lots of work for so little gain) http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2004/04/15/Write_first_time Workrave is telling me I should stop for the day. I trust it. This should not take long. RSI back. Sentances shorter. Feel like am in a bad Bridget Jones parody. Possibly Shatner impersonation. Learning Python. Have taught python to play Foursquare solitare. Badly. Am positive that are better ways of doing things I’m doing. Doing it anyway. Learning Process Considered... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2003/05/08/Python_Question I need to save a list into a tab-deliminated text-file. (Mark’s RSSParser sends me the last-modified of the feed as a list which I need to save to the config file so I can recall it when I next run and feed it to the site to make sure I’m not grabbing a duplicate). The logical way to do this is to serialize the list and save it. For this, I find Pickle which does exactly that. The...