So, decorators are neat (maybe check out a new tutorial on them). Descriptors are neat but may seem hard (though they hardly take a long time to describe). Sometimes these two things intersect, and this post describes how.
Here’s an example decorator where this comes up. First, we want …
I’ll be attending PloneConf this year again, giving a talk about Deliverance. I’ve been working on Deliverance lately for work, but the hard part about it is that it’s not obviously useful. To help explain it I wrote the philosophy of Deliverance, which I will copy here …
We had a debate party tonight for the Biden-Palin debate. It’s nice to watch it in a group of like-minded people. Taking the Democrat/Republican debate seriously is a bullshit game and I don’t have any desire to bring this farce into my normal life.
After the debate …
Update: pyinstall has been renamed to pip (per the suggestions in the comments to this post)
I added pybundles to pyinstall very shortly before I announced pyinstall. I hadn’t actually tried it out that much. Since then I’ve made three more minor releases of pyinstall, and I think …
Note: pyinstall has been renamed to pip
Ever been frustrated with easy_install? Interested in an alternative? Then you should go over to my work blog and read pyinstall: A New Hope.
I was talking with a coworker some time ago about his project, and he needed to update a piece of the page in-place when you go back to the page, and setting the page as uncacheable didn’t really work. Which probably makes sense; I think at one time browsers …
Saturday morning my sister, Monica Bicking, and her boyfriend, Eryn Trimmer, were arrested in Minneapolis. Monica was released on Sunday, but Eryn and others are still in custody, and the police will try to keep them detained as long as possible. update: the two of them and six others from …
A happy 4th Birthday Emily’s Blog!
Lately I’ve been doing most of my testing with doctest, primarily using stand-alone text files. I generally like it (otherwise I wouldn’t be using it), but it does make me frustrated with doctest sometimes. On my wishlist (roughly in order):
I wish output was always displayed, even when …
You can use WSGI to make rewriting middleware; WebOb specifically makes it easy to write. And that’s cool, but it’s more satisfying to use your middleware right away without having to think about writing applications that might live behind the middleware.
There’s two libraries I’ll describe …