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Python 2.7 has just been released, on Anna’s birthday :) it’s going to be the last 2.x release. Time to start picking on 3.x?

HostingFu — EveryDNS Python API and Command Shell. A Python library I wrote to provide API access to EveryDNS, a free DNS hosting service. Very useful if you need to change IP address to a few dozen DNS records.

Python 2.6 final has just been released, and What’s New in Python 2.6 would be one recommended reading. Quite a few syntax sugar, although a lot of them are preparing for Python 3.0 (which would introduce quite a few incompatibility with Python 2.x). From the previous experience with upgrading from Python 2.4 to 2.5, I [...]

Django 1.0 is finally released today and looks like it is going to be a good stable platform for many Python developers to build their next web app on. Tried to pick up Django 2 and half years ago but I’ve never managed to write a full application from it. Just let me append it [...]

Saw this quote from programming.reddit yesterday. Python’s a drop-in replacement for BASIC in the sense that Optimus Prime is a drop-in replacement for a truck. Best quote so far this week.

Reddit is about one of few tech-related social news sites that I read regularly (especially programming.reddit.com). The others are Slashdot and Hacker News. The big news is — they have gone Open Source! Since reddit’s beginning, we have stood on the shoulders of giants in the open source world. Every library, tool and platform we [...]

I have not been twittering much recently because of one and only one reason. That has been on my status page for a few weeks now and I have only been twittering via IM (routing it through my own Jabber server). That sucks. While they have been triumphing the fact they have made it through [...]

Google has just launched a preview version of Google App Engine, a development platform for your next start-up web-based application that is designed to be scalable. Looks like it is designed to compete against Amazon Web Services, and it includes the full suit of development stack, including: Web serving environment, including a Python runtime environment [...]

Guido van Rossum: Python 3000 Status: A schedule was first published around a year ago; we were aiming for a first 3.0 alpha release by the end of the first half of 2007, with a final 3.0 release a year later. (Python 3.0 will be the version when it is released; “Python 3000″ or “Py3k” [...]

I have just released Trackback ‘em All 0.1. It is basically an RSS/Atom feed to pingbacks/trackbacks converter. It fetches a list of RSS/Atom feeds, scan through the entries, and send pingback/trackback to all external links in the feed entries. I have actually been using it for a few months already. It basically: Speeds up your [...]

Alrond’s technoblog: The performance test of 6 leading frameworks. Very interesting read, as Alrond tested Django (Python), TurbGears (Python), Ruby on Rails 1.1.6/1.2.1 (Ruby), Catalyst (Perl), Code Igniter (PHP) and Symfony (PHP), using various load and memory testing utilities. His conclusion? Django is fast, and can be very light on memory as well. RoR 1.1.6 [...]

Last Friday at work we were trying to figure out a strange behaviour with the destructor of some of our wrapper objects in Python. We used a lot of wrapper object in Python to handle object life cycle of our CORBA objects, as they don’t have the built-in reference counting and garbage collection. So whenever [...]

Python 2.5 has been released, and here are some of the highlights and new features. I have especially been looking forward to PEP 342, PEP 343 and SQLite3 becoming standard package. Now, when is Python 3000 coming?

IronPython 1.0 has been released. IronPython has been on my “to-play” list ever since the start of this project, and being an “old school” developer I would love to take a look on .NET.

Don’t like the fact that there is no braces in Python? Fancy to have curly brackets around your code blocks? Well, not a chance. $ python Python 2.4.3 (#1, Jul 22 2006, 23:54:13) [GCC 3.4.6 (Gentoo 3.4.6-r1, ssp-3.4.5-1.0, pie-8.7.9)] on linux2 Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information. >>> from __future__ import braces [...]