Calling all Pythonistas,
What is your personal list of "modules you love and hate" -- stdlib modules that you use all the time, but that have weak documentation, poor examples, or are otherwise difficult to use the first time?
Here are five modules that I think could use some documentation help …
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Hi all,
I need to find some useful projects for new, young contributors, especially in the area of 3rd party packages; we've been thinking about things like porting 3rd party packages to Py3K, adding tests to existing projects, and providing Windows binary eggs for various packages. Everything would be open …
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So I'm having a little caption contest for this picture of our daughter, Amarie Rose Brown, who is now nearly 6 weeks old (but only four weeks old in this picture).
Captions so far:
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charter.net, my home ISP, is intercepting name-not-found errors and replacing them with a host that answers with a Web search page. This leads to some "entertaining" problems when trying to ssh to a host that doesn't exist.
Is this actually wrong or just sleazy?
In fact, it actually breaks …
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Some books make me want to leap up out of my chair and go change the world, or die trying.
Charles Stross' Halting State is not one of them.
However, it is a darn good read, and -- for those of you who are into the Internet, Python, MMORPGs, and/or …
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Hey everyone,
Grig and I are thinking of doing another tutorial at PyCon '08, but we'd like to break out of the mold of "intro testing" and do something more exciting for us. Here's a promotional blurb:
Practical Agile Web Testing --------------------------- Have Web site? Need testing? Bring your tired (code …read more
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I'm happy to announce that the Python Software Foundation is part of a new Google Open Source program, the Highly Open Participation Contest. This contest is an effort by Google to engage pre-college students in open source programming: Google is offering prizes and awards for completing a variety of tasks …
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