In the interests of social anthropology, I feel compelled to point Pythonistas at this fascinating discussion on the stdlib-sig on adding argparse to the Python stdlib. (Yeah, it's pretty much the only traffic that list got so far this month.)
Fascinating stuff. If there's a secret cabal out there masterminding …
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Very odd. I mean, it's nice to have my prayers spell-checked and all, but really, Apple? Cthulhu?
Also, jinja2 rocks. I think I'll be teaching it as a templating language this term...
And finally, people interested in using sqlite3 for shelve-like storage in Python 2.x can take a look …
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So, it's nomination season for the Python Software Foundation again... and I have this niggling feeling that I'm forgetting about several people that have demonstrated significant commitment to the Python community, are good 'uns, and are otherwise people I would trust with some part of the future of Python and …
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Courtesy of Rich Enbody, this blog post, How XML Threatens Big Data -- Dataspora, elicited a big "duh" from me.
You don't solve any of the semantic problems with data by elaborating on a textual format. You may bring them into the light, but along with the visibility comes "bureaucracy" -- technology …
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Victoria Laidler just announced a Pandokia release. She gave a great lightning talk on Pandokia at the PyCon '09 testing BoF and I've been looking forward to this release.
Pandokia seems like a nice way to manage test running and results analysis & reporting, and it fits a fairly unique niche …
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I'm nominally involved in co-mentoring or cheerleading 5 Google Summer of Code projects this summer, and several of the students have the same problem: they send me one big e-mail (or post one big blog entry), every few weeks, asking for input.
This imposes a big energetic barrier to me …
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