Creosote archive for Fri 14 of Oct, 2005

"pydoc -p 8888 Then point a browser at http://localhost:8888/ to browse interactive documentation for every Python module available on your system."

python-nicefloat is a Python module implementing an algorithm based on the paper "Printing Floating-Point Numbers Quickly and Accurately", by Robert G. Burger and R. Kent Dybvig.The implemented algorithm will find the shortest, correctly rounded output string representing a decimal number that converts to the same internal binary floating-point number when read.Have fun!

"It has the special property that you can ask to inspect or remove a triple before it has been added, and the triplespace will supply you with the triple you asked for when it becomes available."

The missing manual indeed. Via jacob.

"Don't be everything to everyone"

cherrypyの紹介

Python Web Framework Niches an excellent post exploring some of the differences between Django and Turbogears in particular. Good points made, well worth reading!

'NTLM Authorization Proxy Server' (APS) is a proxy software that allows you to authenticate via an MS Proxy Server using the proprietary NTLM protocol. Since version 0.9.5 APS has an ability to behave as a standalone proxy server and authenticate http cl

Gente que hace cosas virgueras con el trac

As a (mostly ex-) Java programmer myself who prefers Python to Ruby, I'm puzzled by what seems like a rush of Java programmers to embrace Ruby as though it were the only dynamic language on the planet. I understand that it's mostly because of the success of Rails, which definitely came at the right time with the right marketing. But Ruby really doesn't seem like a good philosophical match with Java to me. Java, to a large degree, tried to be "C++ done right." That is, C++ without all the misfeatures that seemed good at the time but whose benefit turned out to not be worth the cost in complexity for developers. Java is a very orthogonally designed language; there is usually one obvious way to accomplish something.

Micah put my del.icio.us daily links tool to immediate use on his blog. He uncovered a bug in the character handling, which is now fixed in the posted amara_delicious.py file. I usually invoke the script from cron, but Micah asked if there was an alternative. I've been meaning to hack up a poor man's cron for PyBlosxom and this gave me an additional push.

Hot on the heels of some interesting developments in terms of the adoption of Open Document Format comes intriguing stuff surrounding $100 laptops for kids. The article says that the state of Massachusetts has committed to providing every shoolkid with a

If you wonder why it has been so long between 1.0 and 1.3 of the CalCore/CalZope/CPSSharedCalendar trio, then the answer is not only vacation, and a whole bunch of big new features, but also that every time I have been close to releasing a new version, I have first released it to some of our trusty customers for testing. And they have promptly found bugs, which I then fixed, and made a new release, and so on. After the release of 1.0, several additional customers have installed the new calendar, and we also have people using it outside of CPS altogether. At this point I dare to say that the new calendar is both prettier, faster and more stable than the old CPSCalendar.

so there's where the time machine is these days... [image: "bbc mentions who got this year's nobel prize in an article dated october 10th"]

Since the chance of getting any significant amount of work done before needing to leave for the meeting seems to be pretty close to nil, I've been working on the video-card problem. I rebuilt with the ~amd64 nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel stuff from so...

Every skyscrapered city should have some of these. It would add an extra dimension to gazing out of a hotel window in downtown Manhattan or Chicago. Heck what am I thinking. Las Vegas is the place for this sort of thing. Would you bet on two pixels climbi

Burnt off some of the excess energy last night trying to get the new video card working (there were some posts to the gentoo amd64 list that suggested the problem might be solved by updating to the ~amd64 drivers). No such luck. Still, got the deskto...

"from future import * » xattr - Python extended filesystem attributes": Ooh. If one could add a dummy mode to this for unsupported OSen (e.g. it would create an extattr.dat file), this could be the basis for addressing many lightweight repository needs (from uche) "LinuxTV.org - Television with Linux": I'm considering DIY DVR, so this is an important site to track (from uche) "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way": I get a lot of questions from people I don't know, and it's nice to be able to direct some of them to the right etiquette guide (from uche) "unixODBC": The unixODBC Project goals are to develop and promote unixODBC to be the definitive standard for ODBC on non MS Windows platforms.

When I was a kid, I learned a little bit of photography via a summer program for "gifted" students. I borrowed my father's 35mm Canon rangefinder camera (which was older than I was) and managed to learn the difference between aperture and shutter speed. Unfortunately I didn't really learn how to use them to control pictures.

We're leaving tomorrow for Mexico! We're going to Oaxaca, and then on the latter part of the trip making our way to Mexico City where we fly out. Lots of stuff going on lately, I've been feeling overwhelmed but also excited. So it feels hard to just leave. OTOH, it seems really great to leave.

Every time a prospective customer needs to make a choice, you open up the possibility that the choice will be to head somewhere else. A couple months ago, Apple offered: the iPod Shuffle, iPod mini, iPod and iPod Photo. I’m not going to count the U2 iPod, because that’s more of a niche gimmick sort of thing. Since then, Apple has introduced two new models, but reduced the number of choices: iPod Shuffle, iPod nano and iPod.

The fey mood is upon me as I stare into the dark Vibrating strings of reason holding me in check There are grand dream-creatures roaming Just beyond my shuttered sight and I long to join them and howl in darkest night

Have you won a lottery? Are you an actor with your grand, vibrant actions? Or are there songbirds trapped within you? They ask me For life is sweet

The problem with stoics is they shatter They don't stretch like overtaxed steel With moans and pings of stresss They wake up one morning Decide they've had enough And walk away

On the TurboGears mailing list there is a suggestion to move away from its own test tool TestGears.So far the opinions are all positive. Again this shows, IMHO, that this is a project with a healthy approval of "Not Invented Here". The tool in question is Nose. See My Ro-bot Life: Announcing nose: python unittest extension. For more detail see the mailing list thread. Of course there are potential short term issues with new tools, but in the long term I think this is the best way to go.

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