The audio recordings from PyCon 2007 are finally being posted! I know
it’s hard to record in those big ballrooms at conventions, so I hope the
audio quality on these is OK.
PyCon: The PyCon 2007 podcast
The inspect module provides functions for learning about live objects, including modules, classes, instances, functions, and methods. You can use functions in this module to retrieve the original source code for a function, look at the arguments to a method on the stack, and extract the sort of information useful for producing library documentation for your source code. My own CommandLineApp module uses inspect to determine the valid options to a command line program, as well as any arguments and their names so command line programs are self-documenting and the help text is generated automatically.
The documentation for distutils alleges that using the requires keyword allows a package to declare a dependency. I can’t for the life of me make this do anything useful. What I expect to happen is when I use easy_install to download a package with another requirement, that required package should also be downloaded.
Here’s what I have:
from distutils.core import setup import os setup ( name = 'BlogBackup', version = '1.
A couple of days ago, Chris posted about using virtualenv to create sandboxes on Leopard instead of installing packages directly into the Frameworks directory. I’d heard of virtualenv, but never tried it before. After reading what Chris said, I downloaded it and gave it a try, and have to say, “Wow!”
I had been worried about installing a ton of dependencies on my system so I could test code associated with articles submitted to Python Magazine.
Imri Goldberg has put together some interesting statistics about Python module use frequency by analyzing modules downloaded from PyPI.
I’m not surprised to see Zope modules showing up so high on the list, given the number of separate Zope-related packages posted there now. He might need a switch to filter out Zope modules from the counts. :-)
Titus Brown is looking for small projects suitable for new developer to work on. The idea is to come up with something they can do to make a real contribution without feeling overwhelmed by the scope of the project.
If you have any suggestions, head over and let him know via comments on his blog.
Titus wants to know which standard library modules we use frequently, even though we don’t like how they work or find the documentation confusing.
re – I can never remember the difference between search() and match()
timeit – I haven’t actually used it that often, but find the API a little weird. Why do I pass the text of the code to time, instead of a callable like a function or method?
Dan Kusnetzky from ZDNet has posted this morning about Racemi and our product, DynaCenter.
DynaCenter repurposes servers on-the-fly from the iron up, making it easy to turn your disaster recovery assets into extra computing resources. When the production data center goes offline, the DR site can be brought online in little more than the amount of time it takes to reboot the servers. Similarly, in a test/development lab setup you can use DynaCenter to test an application under several operating systems on the same hardware, without manually swapping drives or re-installing anything.
Over at The B-List: Instant web sites, James Bennett has a nice description of the databrowse add-on for django, complete with screenshots. I’d never heard of the tool before, but it sounds extremely useful, and since I’m planning a new django-based site soon I’ll definitely give it a try.