Archive for the ‘Python’ Category
Monday, May 26th, 2008
Check their Measles Initiative site. Obviously they also consider we have situation twice worse than Afghanistan.
To give little context: UNF-sponsored vaccine already killed one child in Ukraine and let another 60+ children to hospitals. Only 60'000 dozes of vaccine (out of ~8M) where used so far.
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Saturday, May 24th, 2008
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Saturday, May 24th, 2008
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Last night, enhancing the Chytach, I've again come across
a feeling that standard nose asserts and decorators are not quite useful when testing exceptions.
For example, when I'm checking a django form validation, I'd like to make sure that my form throws a ValidationError (easy part) with a particular message (oops).
Nose proposes ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
If you massively use python feedparser, sooner or later you'll encounter a feed with non-ascii symbols that tracebacks with somethings like
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 10: ordinal not in range(128)
or even
IndexError: pop from empty list
Using latest version from svn helps, but even it has some bugs ...
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
It appears to be quite easy (from technical side) to do a coup refactoring an application from webware to django.
As a first step could be substituting default webware url mapper from url-maps-to-file-hierarchy to django-like regexp matcher.
url map would look like familiar django file:
from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns
from Pages import Main
urlpatterns ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
I'll start with warning. Now it's just a pure thoughts, none of code is tested or ever written and is just a dump of an idea came up at Python Exception.
For those who do not know the issue. MySQL replication syncs databases one way, from master(s) to slaves. This allows ...
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Deliver fast.
Develop code with tests first and deliver only code 100% covered with tests.
Work in small iterations (biweekly, weekly or even less)
Scaleable - you may test with one-week part-time contract and scale as your ...
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
Recently some feeds grabbed by chytach (and parsed by feedparser.py) started to traceback:
Failed parsing http://del.icio.us/tag/gtd with exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError: {'object': '/tag/\xe6\x97\xb6\xe9\x97\xb4\xe7\xae\xa1\xe7\x90\x86', 'end': 6, 'encoding': 'ascii', 'args': ('ascii', '/tag/\xe6\x97\xb6\xe9\x97\xb4\xe7\xae\xa1\xe7\x90\x86', 5, 6, 'ordinal not in range(128)'), 'start': 5, 'reason': 'ordinal not in range(128)'}
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/akhavr/chytach/bin/feedupdate.py", line 97, in processfeed
...
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
Here's Guido's post to c.l.p verbatim:
From: "Guido van Rossum"
Subject: Python 3000 released as 3.0a1
To: python-announce-list@python.org
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:17:05 -0700
[Bcc: python-list@python.org]
The first Python 3000 release is out -- Python 3.0a1. Be the first one
on your block to download it!
http://python.org/download/releases/3.0/
Excerpts:
Python 3000 (a.k.a. "Py3k", and released as Python 3.0) is ...
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