Advogato blog for shalabh

30 Mar 2007

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 04:32:40 GMT

PyPy 1.0 has been released.

20 Sep 2006

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:21:42 GMT

Python 2.5 is out - highlights:

The with operator
Coroutine-like generatators
Partial function applications
ElementTree part of standard library
Sqlite part of standard library

And many more.

19 Apr 2006

Wed, 19 Apr 2006 04:14:06 GMT

Be Pythonic! - I am putting together a list of idioms I find useful. Comments welcome.

19 Mar 2006

Sun, 19 Mar 2006 01:34:33 GMT

Just discovered Types and Objects in Python by David M. Beazley which sounds similar to my Python Types and Objects article but is very different. It covers the core concepts and fundamentals pretty well and is great for people learning to use Python. My article is more pedantic in nature and can be read after that one for a better understanding of the underlying relationships between objects. [discuss]

11 Mar 2006

Sat, 11 Mar 2006 20:51:12 GMT

PYxIDEs

"This project aims to connect open source projects concerning an IDE core library and framework written in Python to avoid the ongoing duplicating efforts."

8 Mar 2006

Wed, 8 Mar 2006 02:29:41 GMT

Reddites comment on Python.org.

7 Mar 2006

Tue, 7 Mar 2006 02:40:56 GMT

The new Python.org website.

I'll hold off commenting on it for a couple of weeks - after I see how effective the new process is in integrating user contributions.

4 Feb 2006

Sat, 4 Feb 2006 17:17:25 GMT

An open response to my last blog entry.

4 Feb 2006

Sat, 4 Feb 2006 05:02:27 GMT

I Give Up

I happened to look at the new beta.python.org today - 'what an improvement!' I thought - impressed with the new look and feel of the site. I was all fired up and ready to contribute - to start moving and creating content. Watch out pydotorg, here I come...

Until I realized I couldn't !

I don't know YAML. I found no samples. The Redesign Site is full of teasers about how much good stuff is in svn.python.org, and how you can build it with Pyramid. Except for one small thing - you don't have access to the content source. That's right - there are a bunch of things to be done but no direction on how to go about doing it! This left me even more exasperated than last week - when I tried to install Pyramid, found that I needed 5 different things (2 of which I never heard of and needed to be compiled) - finally giving up after realizing I'm not comfortable installing Python 2.4 on my Mac OSX just for this.

So this drove me to effbot's efforts. A standard wiki for editing, combined with a front end rendering system - how nice - I can sure write wiki markup! Until I realized there no wiki yet. It's hidden, maybe because the 'HT2HTML-to-MoinMoin converter is about 80% ready'? Aha! at least I can contribute to that code - oh wait, that's hidden too.

My enthusiasm is all gone now - anyone know where the bazaar is?

25 Jan 2006

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:52:09 GMT

Some PyCon 2006 sponsors:

Google - not a big surprise
Microsoft .NET - big surprise!

Click on the link above to view other sponsors.