Daily Life in an Ivory Basement

Recently the question came up: suppose you wanted to give enthusiastic people some guidance on how to help work on Python. What suggestions do you have? Surely there's a Web page on this!

Well, no: a few quick Google searches led me to discover that "contributing to Python" was answered neither succinctly nor well in any of the resulting pages.

So I thought, heck! Let's create a wiki page!

http://wiki.python.org/moin/HelpingPython

Check it over and add in your own ideas.

--titus

Just finished the book The Fragile Light, by David Nurenberg. Good stuff; independent author. Worth reading.

Briefly, it's a SF&F novel about a world where mutants are sometimes heroes, and more often feared; where there are Herotown ghettoes full of supers; and where only licensed heroes can join in the game. It reminds me a bit of the early Wild Cards books, but better written. A fun read.

--titus

I finally got sick of manually schlepping BLAST files around, so I wrote something to do it for me. 'zounds' is a very simple server/client system for coordinating a bunch of 'worker' nodes through a central server; it does everything in Python with objects and pickling, so it's easy to do extra Python-based processing on the worker nodes. See 'filters' for more info.

You can read a bit more about zounds here:

http://iorich.caltech.edu/~t/zounds/README.html

It's freely available, open-source, etc. etc.

Comments and thoughts welcome; send them to the bip list.

--titus