Category: Python

Hacking OS X’s Python dbhash and bsddb modules to work

By default on my Leopard system, the dbhash and bsddb Python modules cannot be loaded. marc@hyperion:~$ python Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Oct 5 2007, 21:08:09) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin Type "help",...

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reviewboard – Google Code

Just started using this at work for code reviews and it looks impressive and useful so far. reviewboard - Google Code Incidentally, it's written in Python, using Django.

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links for 2007-07-22

The Eric Python IDE Eric is a full featured Python and Ruby editor and IDE, written in python. It is based on the cross-platform Qt gui toolkit, integrating the highly-flexible Scintilla editor control. (tags: python ide...

Common LispLispPython

links for 2007-04-08

Python for Lisp Programmers Peter Norvig compares and contrasts Python and Lisp (esp. Common Lisp) (tags: python lisp programming)...

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New features in JavaScript 1.7

Firefox 2.0 includes JavaScript 1.7 - here's a breakdown of the new features. Looking at this list of features, which includes destructuring assignments, generators, and list comprehensions, it seems to me that the Mozilla guys...

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urllib2 – The Missing Manual

A nice little intro on Python's urllib2 library, including how to use handlers and openers to do things like authentication and handling of proxies. I've been messing around a bit with the Python FUSE API so this was of interest...

ProgrammingPythonRuby

Django vs. Rails

I just finished going through a Django tutorial. My first impression is that Django is perhaps a little trickier to get going than Ruby on Rails (though this probably becomes immaterial once you get accustomed to it). The thing...