I haven't seen anyone announce this, so I guess I should: there's now a Planet Python/Summer of Code site, http://soc.python.org/, hosted by yours truly.
Enjoy!
--titus
p.s. Regular blogging may resume shortly.
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Intermediate and Advanced Software Carpentry with Python
An e-mail to the Xerces c-users mailing list
If anyone knows someone actually on the Xerces c-users mailing list or development team, could you please forward this on?
(I sent it directly to the list mentioned on http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c/feedback.html, but it hasn't shown up in the archives and I don't seem to have …
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Strangling Your Code and Growing Your Test Harness: The 9 Phases of Building Automated Tests Into Legacy Code
I'm in the early throes of building tests into my Cartwheel project. Cartwheel was one of the two projects that inspired my Web testing project, twill, so naturally I'm happy to finally be putting twill to good use in my own projects. Naturally the transition from building tools for building …
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Compiling Universal Binaries under Mac OS X -- My Experience
I've spent a few months (on and mostly off) trying to get my C++/FLTK program, FamilyRelationsII, to build on my MacBook for both old and new Macs.
I was helped immensely by Mando Rodriguez and Diane Trout, both of whom contributed various snippets. Getting it all to play nice …
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Replacing commands with subprocess
After an innocent question was answered positively, I am putting together a patch to deprecate the commands module in favor of a slightly expanded subprocess module (for 2.6).
Briefly, the idea is to add three new functions to subprocess:
output = get_output(cmd, input=None, cwd=None, env=None): (status …
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unittest bitching: premature; lazyweb request
From reading Collin Winter's blog he's designing a new unittest module first, and then he's going to ask c.l.p and presumably python-dev about adding it to py3k. So it's not quite the fait accompli I thought it was, which reduces my complaints to mild grumbling.
And, dear lazyweb …
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