Scott Yang's Playground

Simon of the Django fame has put together Python Developer Centre for Yahoo! Developer Network. Many useful articles on how to access Yahoo’s API with Python, and hopefully there will be more upcoming.

First of all, I like FLOSS, a podcast where Chris DiBona and Leo Laporte interviews various respective figures in the free/libral/open source software scene. Ever since they advertised that Guido van Rossum will be in the next show, I have been eagerly waiting for this interview. Well, it is finally here, where Guido talked about [...]

Jeremy Zawodny asked “Ruby or Python”, when trying to pick up a new language to add into his collection of tools. Many have contributed comments, and so far there seems to be more Python people on board, even though many have tried to comment subjectively (Ian Bicking for example). Interesting thread to watch if you [...]

web.py, the minimalistic Python web application framework which I rant about two and half months ago, has been re-released as Public Domain by its author Aaron Swartz, announced in this mail to the news group.

One of Guido‘s earliest assignment at Google is to write a mid-size web applications for internal use, and he is sharing his opinions on his research on Python web frameworks. At the end he hasn’t found anything that is satisfactory, even though the requirement is straight forward. By browsing through the comments, despite Python’s “one [...]

Guido van Rossum started his work at Google, and is able to commit 50% of his time working on Python. That is great! Hopefully we’ll see a beta of Python 2.5 soon with PEP 342 Coroutine via Enhanced Generators implemented. Also, Google is mostly C++, Java and Python — so is the place I work, [...]

Peter Hunt took a look on “How Python wins on the Web”. He argued that framework does not really matter — not all those efforts mimicking Ruby on Rails anyway, as RoR and .NET has already won the hearts of developers. Instead, Pythonists should focus on killer re-usable applications. Here’s what I propose: screw Web [...]

Remember Aaron Swartz’s post on rewriting reddit.com from Lisp to Python in 7 days? Besides a “blow” to the Lisp community (people you don’t want to offend), it also introduced issues with existing Python web application frameworks. The end result? web.py, and 0.1 was released today under an open-source license. You can download the Python [...]

Try Python — a Python statement evaluator by Mike Meyer. Basically it tries to emulate a typical Python console inside your web browser using DHTML. The actual evaluation is done on the server side using remote scripting (aka AJAX). It lets you run Python with nothing but your web browser. Server side runs Python in [...]

The Server Side reports Caucho adds PHP support to Resin to allow it to run up to 6 times faster. It is done by compiling PHP into Java bytecode so that it can be executed in highly optimised Java virtual machines. From this comment, Quercus (the PHP module for Resin application server) actually implemented most [...]

tabo: Django, Or why I chose it over turbogears and ruby on rails. That was pretty much what I have been through. I was also at a stage deciding on a frame work for a new project. While I have done most of freelance web development on PHP previously, as a Python developer of almost [...]

I have updated Bloglines2HTML, a small’ish Python script I have written over a year ago, to 0.2. Bloglines2HTML downloads your Bloglines subscriptions and feeds, and convert them into static HTML from a simple template. It enables you to easily “catch up” your news feeds without getting on-line. This script has been working fine for me [...]

I have not updated mtsend.py for more than a year, as it has been working quite comfortably for me. I have made some slight modifications during this year just to scratch some of my itches. Also thanks to Ilkka Poutanen for providing bug fixes on the printTable() routine. Thus I am declaring mtsend.py an 1.0 [...]

About feed2html.py is an open source/free source command line tool that takes a RSS/RDF/Atom news feed, and converts it into HTML documents (or other text documents using templates). It is developed in Python (2.3+ required), and it requires the universal feed parser to be installed separately. It can take input from an URL, a local [...]

Guido van Rossum discussed functional-programming-like syntax would not be needed in Python 3000, especially the nasty reduce() that brought more confusion than edification. I for one would love to move away from lambda, map() and filter() – I for one am not a LISP programmer and would like more explicit syntax like list/generator comprehension.