Welcome to PyTown. I don’t actually use Python much for its own sake, so the stuff here will most likely be about things that use Python, such as Mailman and Django.
- Django: Beyond the SQL
- Django is a great application framework for Python and web applications. You can use it to greatly speed up your database and application development both on the web and on the command line. This tutorial is currently a very rough draft; it probably won’t be very useful without the assistance of someone who knows Django running the tutorial. If I ever run this tutorial a second time, I’ll probably update it with screenshots to make it more usable for individuals.
- Modifying Mailman
- It’s not that difficult to add new features to Mailman, as long as you know where to look and remember that you’ll have to redo your changes after every upgrade.
More Python
- Multiple Input Fields with multiple inheritance
- We needed to display one TextField as either a TextInput or a Textarea, depending on the value in the field. Multiple inheritance makes it easy, if a bit wonky.
- Thinking Python: Django cache expiration time
- Django sets the expiration time when data is cached. Sometimes it makes more sense to expire data dynamically based on later changes to the database. Does this mean a change to CacheClass? Not necessarily.
- Django Twitter tag and RSS object
- I wanted to embed my twitter feed into my Django blog, and didn’t see any simple RSS readers for Python that did what I wanted.
- Excerpting partial XHTML using minidom
- You can use xml.dom.minidom to parse partial XHTML as long as you use a few tricks and don’t mind that getElementById doesn’t work.
- Media duration in Python on Mac OS X
- It turns out to be very easy to get the duration of MP3 files, MPEGs, and other media files on the OS X command line.
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