tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124766432011-12-01T04:06:36.744-08:00Team blog for the Southern California Python Interest GroupGrig Gheorghiuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17863511617654196370noreply@blogger.comBlogger191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12476643.post-1140491041084130932006-02-20T19:04:00.000-08:002006-02-20T19:05:38.823-08:00

While browsing through Eclipse plugins for Python and Jython, I came across ANTLR Studio for generating ANTLR lexers and parsers. Even if you aren't that interested in lexers and parsers, it has a great video of a very innovative user interface. The author of ANTLR Studio, Prashant Deva, is only 19 years old!

Howard B. Goldenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845116528595729999noreply@blogger.com39tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12476643.post-1131733997661970552005-11-11T10:32:00.000-08:002005-11-11T10:33:17.676-08:00

The SoCal Piggies had their ninth meeting at USC (Salvatori Computer Science Center) on November 10th at 7:00 PM. Eight Piggies attended -- Daniel Arbuckle, Steve Williams, Grig Gheorghiu, Diane Trout, Titus Brown, Mark Kohler, Howard Golden and George Bullis. The first presenter was Daniel Arbuckle, who talked about "Python and Unicode". Daniel started by introducing general Unicode concepts

Grig Gheorghiuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17863511617654196370noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12476643.post-1129565194912880772005-10-17T09:05:00.000-07:002005-10-17T09:06:34.926-07:00

The SoCal Piggies had their eighth meeting at USC (Salvatori Computer Science Center) on October 13th at 7:00 PM. Seven Piggies attended -- Daniel Arbuckle, Diane Trout, Brian Leair, Titus Brown, Grig Gheorghiu, Mark Kohler and Howard Golden. The first presenter was Brian Leair, who introduced the Python Imaging Library, aka PIL. Brian talked about the main PIL modules such as Image and

Grig Gheorghiuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17863511617654196370noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12476643.post-1127224019151419022005-09-20T06:44:00.000-07:002005-09-21T21:05:57.580-07:00

For any who missed it, Pyrex has finally been updated with full support for Python 2.4. There is much rejoicing.http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/

Daniel Arbucklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07967882230242990366noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12476643.post-1126729882999979082005-09-14T13:28:00.000-07:002005-09-14T13:31:23.010-07:00

The SoCal Piggies had their seventh meeting at USC (Salvatori Computer Science Center) on September 13th at 7:00 PM. Eight Piggies attended -- Daniel Arbuckle, Diane Trout, Grig Gheorghiu, Howard Golden, Manuel Garcia, Mark Kohler, Steve Williams and Titus Brown. Diane Trout talked about her experiences with Trac, an integrated wiki/issue tracker/source code browser/interface to revision

Grig Gheorghiuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17863511617654196370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12476643.post-1124925294869024452005-08-24T16:10:00.000-07:002005-08-24T16:16:15.576-07:00

I'm back.I spent most of June and July (6 weeks total) at EmbryologyBoot camp in Woods Hole, MA; came back to California afterstopping off in NY and Minnesota to visit parents & relatives; andthen went to Antibes, on the Cote d'Azur / French Riviera for a weekwith my in-laws. I've been back just over a week, and I spent most ofthat week dealing with long-neglected tasks and restarting my

Titus Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18412533667430208145noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12476643.post-1123253668789189952005-08-05T07:53:00.000-07:002005-08-05T07:55:19.693-07:00

Not Python related, but pretty interesting nevertheless... Via Len: Exploring the C++ Unit Testing Framework Jungle

Grig Gheorghiuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17863511617654196370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12476643.post-1123253409134411872005-08-05T07:49:00.000-07:002005-08-05T07:50:09.143-07:00

From IBM developerWorks.

Grig Gheorghiuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17863511617654196370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12476643.post-1122047713871847972005-07-22T08:53:00.000-07:002005-07-22T08:55:13.880-07:00

The SoCal Piggies had their fifth meeting at USC on July 21st at 7:00 PM. Six Piggies attended -- Daniel Arbuckle, Diane Trout, Steve Williams, Mark Kohler, Grig Gheorghiu and Brian Leair. Grig presented an overview of the py library, a collection of modules that intend to address several issues with the Python standard library. The py lib's mantra is "No API", which means it aims to be as

Grig Gheorghiuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17863511617654196370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12476643.post-1120074362610343782005-06-29T12:22:00.000-07:002005-06-29T12:53:00.600-07:00

Python ImportsPEP 238 which has been accepted and may have an impact on any Python packages you've made so far, depending on your import style. This PEP will change the way imports work in a package. By default, all imports will be concidered absolute. Previously, if you had a Python package named 'Foo' with modules 'Bar' and 'Fig', you could import 'Fig' from the 'Bar' module by typing 'import

Brandon Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00524118827664099693noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12476643.post-1119735468505055222005-06-25T14:36:00.000-07:002005-06-25T14:37:48.516-07:00

The SoCal Piggies had their fourth meeting at USC on June 21st at 7:00 PM. Seven Piggies attended -- in order of appearance: Daniel Arbuckle, Howard Golden, Grig Gheorghiu, Diane Trout, Mark Kohler, Charlie Hornberger and George Bullis. Diane presented a tutorial on SimpleTAL, a Python-based templating language derived from Zope's ZPT. SimpleTAL allows you to lay out dynamic content in HTML

Grig Gheorghiuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17863511617654196370noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12476643.post-1118607311579196982005-06-12T13:12:00.000-07:002005-06-12T13:15:11.583-07:00

(Repost, via the socal-piggies blogger stuff:)twill 0.7.1Coooooome and get it! Announcement, docs, download.This is basically a bug-fix version with about 15 different minorfixes. Several users requested things like HTTP basic auth handlingand file uploads, and I patched several bugs in the underlyingpackages (urllib etc.) Internal ugliness was fixed or augmented,depending on whether or not I

Titus Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18412533667430208145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12476643.post-1118545593570975682005-06-11T19:49:00.000-07:002005-06-11T20:06:33.596-07:00

This is an optimization technique I learned about a few days ago at a symposium. "Optimization" in this case means finding the input parameter values that result in the best function output, or at least approximating them.The performance of this implementation isn't as good as the presenters', in terms of the number of iterations it takes to approach the optimum. I'm not sure what the cause of

Daniel Arbucklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07967882230242990366noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12476643.post-1116032641261808062005-05-13T17:56:00.000-07:002005-05-13T18:36:17.730-07:00

rdiff-backup - A remote incremental backup of all your files could be as easy as"rdiff-backup / host.net::/target-dir"A friend turned me on to this tool, seems to have nice features compression, runs over ssh, you can backup between 2 remote machines, incremental back etc... A list of its features can be found here:rdiff-backup features Looks like someone tried to use it on windows in cygwin to a

neenerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11673110378836512386noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12476643.post-1115391839684947142005-05-06T07:50:00.000-07:002005-05-06T08:03:59.693-07:00

On Linux, and other UNIX-like systems that support it, you can make an ioctl call to insert data into your standard input file. That's pretty neat in an of itself, but it gets better: in most cases, you share the standard input of your parent process. What that means is that you can insert data into that file, and then terminate... and the parent process will read those data as user input.The

Daniel Arbucklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07967882230242990366noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12476643.post-1115220545991023842005-05-04T08:03:00.000-07:002005-06-08T07:43:22.723-07:00

Here is a small class that connects to the Windows registry and creates sub-keys and/or values for a given registry key. I used this functionality very recently to add a directory to the PATH environment variable by modifying the Environment\Path registry value.Update 06/08/05: When modifying the 'Path' registry value, we need to set a value type of REG_EXPAND_SZ and not REG_SZ, otherwise

Grig Gheorghiuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17863511617654196370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12476643.post-1114885420219409372005-04-30T11:12:00.000-07:002005-04-30T11:25:45.570-07:00

I've been experimenting with darcs since Titus mentioned it at the last SoCal Piggies meeting, and my conclusion is that it's the best revision control tool I've seen, for personal-scale projects. I haven't really stress-tested it for project size scalability yet, so that's where the possible caveat lies. I've heard that it couldn't handle the Linux kernel... but then, not many things can.If you

Daniel Arbucklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07967882230242990366noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12476643.post-1114712630399891992005-04-28T11:11:00.000-07:002005-04-28T11:23:50.400-07:00

I use HTTP POST as a lightweight mechanism for posting test results to a central location. I have tests running on various clients/platforms/OSes, and I need a way to keep track of the results of those tests. For this, I have an Apache server running CGI scripts that talk to a Firebird database. By using HTTP POST from the clients to the Apache server, I keep things simple, because the clients

Grig Gheorghiuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17863511617654196370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12476643.post-1114610898729188852005-04-27T07:06:00.000-07:002005-04-27T07:08:18.730-07:00

I thought it would be a good idea to get a blog for the SoCal Piggies (Southern California Python Interest Group). This will be a "team blog", where all us Piggies will be able to post. I hope we will all contribute by posting for example short "Python tips and tricks" that can make our lives easier as Python users.

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