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 …
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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 …
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We've been talking about how to manage pygr resources remotely via the existing XML-RPC interface, and for that HTTPS is a requirement. I offered to track down the code necessary for running an XML-RPC server over HTTPS. Here's what I found:
It turns out that while the Python stdlib supports …read more
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(pygr is a neat bioinformatics framework in Python.)
After some commenters on my last post seemed happy to hear that pygr was the focus of some summer work, I realized I had only discussed the pygr summer work in a post to the biology-in-python list.
Whoops.
So, here's the scoop …
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Dear Lazyweb, help!
I'm embarking on a number of summer projects in my new lab at MSU, and several of them focus on using pygr to do cool genomic stuff. In particular, I'm planning to build a personal genome annotation system that will let people run their own full genome …
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So I'm pretty bullish on testing for maintenance reasons. It was nice to see how well it worked out for me when a user recently reported a problem with Cartwheel.
This is what happened: third-party package (LAGAN) that the user was running through the Web interface depended on certain command-line …
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I'm having a long-running discussion with some people about threading and why using threads with simple subprocess calls is almost certainly an overcomplicated (== BAD) use of threads. Everyone seems to think I'm wrong (at least, there's either deafening silence or straight out argument ;) and I think I finally figured out …
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