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 …
I’m going on vacation in a couple weeks to Berlin and Amsterdam, flying to Berlin on August 12, leaving from Amsterdam on August 27, and transitioning between the two sometime in between. Things Emily and I should see or do? Care to meet up? On vacations my evenings tend …
Lately there’s been some interest in build processes among various people — Vellum was announced a while back, Ben has been looking for a tool and looking at Fabric, and Kevin announced Paver. At the same time zc.buildout is starting to gain some users outside of the Zope world …
Do you believe the world is (a) getting better, or (b) getting worse?
Please explain. Please, no more “both/neither” answers: choose just one
People have asked me a few times about evalexception and pdb — they’d like to be able to use something like pdb through the browser, stepping through code.
The technique I used for tracebacks wouldn’t really work for pdb. For a traceback I saved all the information from the …
For the most part by the time I finished writing my last article on licensing I had mostly convinced myself that the GPL isn’t a practical license for most projects. That is, outcomes when using the GPL aren’t likely to be any better than outcomes using a permissive …