In this new release of my Campfire API, Pinder 0.6.5, I fixed some bugs and added the methods ping() and topic() (which matches change_topic()) to the Room objects. There is by the way an incompatible change: I do not distribute anymore BeautifulSoup and httplib2 with the library. Go take it!
I opened a Twitter account for the PyCon Italy conference. I will try to keep updated as soon as things come up and the conference starts on Friday. http://twitter.com/pyconit
While I was boring myself to death last weekend and while everybody was talking about it I came up with a sample application. Now I can talk about Google AppEngine as well It is simply a pastebin using the DataStore API, the webapp framework, the Users API, pygments and Django templates. It is heavily inspired [...]
We had to make some schedule updates for the conference. The savory new flavor of Py2.6 and Py3.0 is the title of the second day’s keynote. Who’s the speaker? Raymond Hettinger The talk about callbacks and Python patterns have been replaced by a talk about the now utterly famous Google AppEngine. The speakers of the [...]
UPDATE: Raymond Hettinger will hold the keynote of the second day! PyCon Due is definitely taking shape. The conference will take place on a three day span. The first day venue (free of any kind of charge) will be Palazzo Vecchio, in Florence. The conference will be introduced by the spokeswoman of Arts of the [...]
UPDATE: I forgot to say that there will be simultaneous translation for non-italian speakers and attendants. PyCon Due Italy is coming, here the press release (in Italian): Firenze, 27 Marzo 2008: Sono finalmente aperte le iscrizioni a PyCon Due, la seconda conferenza italiana dedicata al linguaggio di programmazione Python, che si terrà a Firenze il [...]
Dave Benjamin summarized on his blog 10 reasons why XML-RPC should be better than REST but I think he completely missed the point about REST APIs. Let’s see: 1 – Standard, cross-language, typeful serialization of data REST is definitely standard and cross-language. Regarding serialization, you can transfer what you want where you want but if [...]
Here we are with another update from Python 2.x SVN. Added os.O_NOATIME constant. It serves the purpose to not update the access time within read operations. Added os.fchmod() and os.fchown(). The new module has been deprecated. Use types instead. sys.py3kwarning flag has been exposed. True when python is started with -3 flag on command line. [...]
IT’s been definitely a while since my last update but having a new job changes a lot my schedule. In the httplib module there was a bug in reading data from the stream. HTTPConnection hanged when reading too much data at once. This has been fixed closing the connection after reading the whole stream. In [...]
decimal module: There’s a bunch of is_* methods (like is_signed()) in Decimal class returning a boolean value. Added an internal class to store the digits of log(10), so that they can be made available when necessary without recomputing. enumerate() is no longer bounded to using sequences shorter than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now, [...]
