The Python Programming Language
Ok, perhaps I jest. As a Python instructor decorators are a topic I find students consistently
struggle with upon first exposure. That’s because decorators...
0 replies - 2372 views - 07/02/12 by Simeon Franklin in Articles
A couple years ago I wrote a rather flawed tutorial
about SQLAlchemy. I decided it was about time for me to re-do that
tutorial from scratch and...
0 replies - 739 views - 07/02/12 by Mike Driscoll in Articles
This is a quick introduction to Selenium WebDriver in Python on Ubuntu/Debian systems.
WebDriver (part of Selenium 2) is a library for automating...
0 replies - 1364 views - 07/01/12 by Corey Goldberg in Articles
How many times does it happen that you stumble upon an awesome youtube video, you make up your mind to download it but fail short to find a good tool which...
0 replies - 1245 views - 07/01/12 by Sachin Khosla in Articles
Edit: got complaints that code was hard to read, trying out Pygments.
In part 1, we looked at sending functions as arguments to other
functions, at nesting...
0 replies - 749 views - 07/01/12 by Fredrik Håård in Articles
Since I, in retrospect, made the wrong choice when cutting down a
Python course to four hours and messed up the decorator exercise, I
promised the...
1 replies - 479 views - 06/30/12 by Fredrik Håård in Articles
I rewrote PyMongo's connection
pool over the last few months.
Among the concurrency issues I had to nail down was, if a thread is
resetting the connection...
0 replies - 404 views - 06/29/12 by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis in Articles
Sometimes it might be nice to be able to test a DNS server’s output,
such as with a continuous monitoring system, or as a validation tool
when migrating...
0 replies - 2209 views - 06/28/12 by Joe Miller in Articles
Recently I needed the ability to use Reportlab’s flowables, but place
them in fixed locations. Some of you are probably wondering why I would
want to do...
0 replies - 569 views - 06/28/12 by Mike Driscoll in Articles
I’ve never understood why people design systems in python to
use config files. IMO there are two types of data and we can handle them
both in...
1 replies - 1502 views - 06/27/12 by Rob Galanakis in Articles
The other day I saw a question on StackOverflow
about how to dynamically destroy and create panels after a certain
amount of time has passed. I told the...
0 replies - 635 views - 06/27/12 by Mike Driscoll in Articles
Imagine that your server process needs to simultaneously wait for I/O
on multiple descriptors and also needs to wait for the delivery of a
signal.
The...
0 replies - 855 views - 06/26/12 by Ruslan Spivak in Articles
Problem
You want to embed HTML within a message using Django's messages framework.
This is a reasonably common requirement - for instance, it's
common to...
0 replies - 693 views - 06/26/12 by David Winterbottom in Articles
New Relic is announcing the availability of two awesome new
features. Thanks to our SaaS model, our customers have immediate access
to these new features...
0 replies - 8734 views - 06/26/12 by Bill Hodak in Articles
I meant to write up a post on this within a week of reading about it,
but then things got busy and I forgot. Anyway, there’s a new widget in
the wxPython...
0 replies - 683 views - 06/25/12 by Mike Driscoll in Articles
