Posts Tagged ‘Python’
Quick Guide to Mercurial for svn Users
Posted on July, 9 at 9:31 am | Filed Under CM, Python
Ned Batchelder has put together a quick guide to mercurial basic commands for subversion folks who are part of the move from a centralized version control tool like subversion to mercurial, a distributed version control system. You can read it here. Mercurial (and other dvcs tools like git and bzr) seems to be gathering steam [...]
Jython 2.5 and a book!
Posted on July, 2 at 3:17 pm | Filed Under Jython, Python
Jython 2.5, the latest version, is out and available. Get it here: http://www.jython.org/. This brings Jython to compatibility with CPython 2.5 so it can run more python than ever. Additionally, there is an open source Jython book in the works called The Definitive Guide to Jython. The book is a collaboration of multiple people close [...]
Mobile Jython – Jythonroid
Posted on January, 19 at 10:48 am | Filed Under Jython, Python
Jythonroid is a build of Jython now available for your Android based phone. Cool! I wonder if we will get android based phone up in the frozen north any time soon…
Best Replacement Shell for CMD on Windows XP?
Posted on December, 12 at 12:31 pm | Filed Under Python, Web Tools
I’m looking for a replacement shell, preferably free, for Windows XP’s cmd.exe. I have considered cygwin, but am really looking for something that is still windows-ish … Google turns up a few options that are for pay … Any recommendations out there? If it could be extended with Python, that would be perfect …
Python Turns 3.0
Posted on December, 4 at 1:56 am | Filed Under Jython, Python
Python 3.0 final is out and available! Hurray! Hurry out and get it.
Python – Swiss Army Knife Web Server
Posted on November, 5 at 4:26 pm | Filed Under Jython, Python
I use the following instant python test webserver in so many places… its quick to setup and makes sharing files a snap. I first saw a mention of it by Gary Robbins. Here it is: python -c “import SimpleHTTPServer;SimpleHTTPServer.test()”
Trying to switch Planet Python to more topical feed
Posted on October, 22 at 5:40 pm | Filed Under Jython, Python
Just a quick note, I’m trying to switch the feed that Planet Python and Planet Jython grab to be one that only grabs relevant topics on this blog. So far I’m not getting far, but if this seems blog seems to go a little quiet, you can always subscribe to this blog directly.
Frank’s Jython Roadmap
Posted on October, 20 at 6:26 pm | Filed Under Jython, Python
Jython is nearing some important dates. From Frank Wierzbicki: Jython 2.5 Beta We are closing in on a beta at the time of this writing. We have a pretty good implementation of Python, passing more than 99% of the unit tests that we pull in from CPython. We have implemented all of the 2.5 language [...]
Make sure mod_python and python match unicode settings
Posted on October, 6 at 11:39 pm | Filed Under Collaboration
As part of a small weekend DJango project, I needed to have xml and xslt support in python on my hosting provider, Webfaction. lxml was recommended to me as the best library for xml and xslt, so I went ahead and built up a small test app and deployed it to my webfaction account. I [...]
Consolas Programmer Font Family [Microsoft]
Posted on October, 6 at 11:00 pm | Filed Under Software
I’m rather jealous of Mac coders with their fancy TextMate editors. It seems every python screencast I watch features that darn editor! I can replicate most of the textmate features I care about on linux using either gedit or kate. Scribes is specifically aiming to be textmate on linux On windows I use VIM or [...]
Python DJango lxml and xslt … problems with apache
Posted on October, 5 at 11:11 am | Filed Under Jython, Python
lxml is a beautiful library for handling xml and xsl transformations. Thanks to the blog readers for their excellent suggestions. I put together a quick DJango app to test it out and locally everything works great. Deploying my app to my webfaction account though was a bit tricky. In the end, due to an old [...]
Python to do XSLT processing?
Posted on October, 3 at 9:32 am | Filed Under Python
I have a side project where I would like to use xsl style sheets to process xml data. This is probably part of a small DJango or TurboGears project where users upload large xml datasets and they view them using various xsl style sheets. What is the best way to go about doing this with [...]
Jython Bean Scripting Framework (BSF) Example
Posted on September, 17 at 1:11 pm | Filed Under Collaboration, Jython, Python
Every time I have to put my head back into java and figure out how to embed Jython, I have a hard time finding any examples. So, here is a quick example of getting jython working in BSF. The java class runs jython first by exec’ing a string that contains a python fragment, and then [...]
DJangocon Hits YouTube – Videos are up!
Posted on September, 15 at 9:14 pm | Filed Under Python, Web Tools
via Simon Willison, the DJangocon videos are hitting youtube. You can subscribe to the youtube feed, or watch the keynote here. This is the best way to do conferences. Having video available is a great consolation prize for us DJango supporters who couldn’t make the trip! Update: Here is a better list of the videos.
Is product management missing from open source?
Posted on September, 9 at 3:32 pm | Filed Under Collaboration
I often get to work with product managers in software shops and its a pretty fun part of the business to work in. Configuration Management is fun and exciting and all … but it sure is nice to get upstream of the decision making process and help to mold and facilitate good process there. In [...]
More on Django on Jython
Posted on September, 5 at 7:03 pm | Filed Under Jython, Python, Software
Seems that Jython 2.2 release coincides with a desire by some Django / Java developers to try to merge their favourite technologies (python and django) with their for pay technologies. Here is another person working on porting Django to Jython.
Updated Jython Bibliography for 2007
Posted on June, 1 at 3:18 pm | Filed Under Jython, Python
Jython seems to be gaining steam again. In celebration here is an updated Jython Bibliography updated to include resources I’ve found published in late 2006 and 2007. If there is anything I’ve missed, please let me know.
