All Tests Passed - Have a Banana: Colored Output while doing TDD with DJango and Fabric
David Winterbottom has an easy way to add custom colors and messages to Django while doing TDD. "All Tests Passed - Have a Banana!"
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Computing Convolution using Numpy's Kaiser Windows
A convolution is a way to combine two sequences, x and w, to get a third sequence, y, that is a filtered version of x. Using Numpy's... more »
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What WSGI is
WSGI (Web Server Gateway Interface) is the standard for interfacing Python web applications with web servers. One of the Python syntax... more »
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Algorithm of the Week: Data Compression with Prefix Encoding
Prefix encoding, sometimes called front encoding, is yet another algorithm that tries to remove duplicated data in order to reduce its... more »
Installing a Django Application on Red Hat's OpenShift PAAS
While taking Red Hat's OpenShift PAAS for a test drive recently, Ken Cochrane noticed a lack of Python documentation on the subject, so... more »
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Apache Log Parsing with Python
Steven Lott provides a simple code snippet for parsing Apache logs in Python that makes the access log rows first-class Access-class... more »
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Easy way to reduce the size of png files
Step by step instructions of how to easily reduce the file size of png files, without reducing quality. Bash and python scripts included.
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Amon - Python-powered server monitoring, logging, and error reporting with JSON API
mon from Martin Rusev is a simple yet flexible way to add server monitoring, logging, and error tracking to your web stack. Amon consists... more »
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Multiprocessing using Python
Basically, the following example will be perfect for applications in which the exact same task has to be performed several times on unrelated data.
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wxPython: Showing 2 Filetypes in wx.FileDialog
Mike Driscoll shows you how to make the wx.FileDialog display more than one file type at a time using the 'wildcard' variable.
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The importance of thinking the right thing
I've been fiddeling with type inference again -- this time I've actually got much further than before. This time, the algorithm can... more »
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Model Templates in Django without Denormalization
The model needed to represent the notion of a university module, which can be taught over a number of semesters and/or years, by... more »
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We Need To Talk About Binary Search.
Why is binary search so damn hard to get right? Why is it that 90% of programmers are unable to code up a binary search on the spot, even... more »
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Running Sentry on DotCloud
Ken Cochrane has a great step-by-step post on how to run Sentry on DotCloud.
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wxPython: A Wizard Tutorial
Mike Driscoll takes a look at wxPython's Wizard Widget (the dialog that you see when you run an installer or set up a template) and... more »
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Local Directory vs. Local Guide
Kin's work with CityGrid places led him to the conclusion that user-centered local direction provides search mechanisms for finding local... more »
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Multiprocessing Goodness Part 1: Use Case
The advantage of multiprocessing is to have multiple processes working on a problem. If we break a big problem into small, concurrent... more »
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Mocking Generator Methods in Python
Another mock recipe, this one for mocking generator methods. A Python generator is a function or method that uses the yield statement to... more »
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Almost There - PyPy's ARM Backend
In this post I want to give an update on the status of the ARM backend for PyPy's JIT and describe some of the issues and details of the backend.
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Debian Packaging for Python 2 and 3
Today, a little Debian packaging-fu for modifying an existing Python 2 package to include support for Python 3 from the same source... more »
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REST API with C client in the PiCloud
I was playing around with PiCloud’s REST API and had a bit of fun writing a C client for it. Now, why C? Well, because one of the reasons... more »
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wxPython: wx.ListCtrl Tips and Tricks
In this article, we will go over a few tips and tricks for the wx.ListCtrl widget when it’s in “report” mode. Tips include: How to... more »
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5 open-source Python/Django apps we love
The Python/Django duet is fantastic, everyone knows that. However it can be even more awesome with these apps: South, Fabric, Django... more »
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Unittest's Code Coverage in PyCharm
PyCharm‘s my favorite IDE in years. Granted, learning how to use it can be like the first few minutes of Flight of the Navigator, but... more »
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A Simple Tracer for the Flow Graph Language
This is the second blog post in a series about comparing partial evaluation and tracing. In the first post of the series I introduced a... more »
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