The Mouse Vs. The Python

Last September, I thought it would be really cool to have a contest for my readers in which I would let them come up with some great logo designs for my blog in return for some prizes. You can read all about it here if you like. Alas, I received no designs whatsoever. I did get some positive comments from people and a comment or two telling me I was too cheap. Anyway, after that complete flop, I decided to ask some artist friends of mine if they’d be interested in doing it, but they also declined. What was this world coming too? Where were these “starving” artists that everyone talks about?

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It’s time for another edition of the “weekly Python news”! What happened this week in Python world? You’ve come to the right place to find out. We missed the announcement last week about Germany’s Python Academy’s course schedule, so be sure to check that out. This week we have a lot of news from the Python web world (again) as well as news about a great new Python book.

• Working with Django Settings files – I don’t do much with Django right now, but this looks interesting.
• The Hudson project is supposedly going to get forked. The new fork is called Jenkins. You can read all about it on Greg Turnquist’s blog
• The Pyramid project is a new development from the Pylons people. In this blog you can learn about Pyramid’s Auth API.
• Did you know about ep.io, a new Python hosting service? Well you can read about it here if you like
• Enthought recently added PySide support to some of their products.
• Mark Lutz and O’Reilly have released the 4th edition of Programming Python, which is updated for Python 3. You can buy it from Amazon right now!
• Wingware’s latest 4.0 beta is now out. You can read about it here and here

If you think that some news is missing, be sure to drop me a line via the comments or the contact form. Have a great week!

Another week, another set of Python news items. This week

• Andrew Kuchling received a PSF Community Award
• Doug Hellman also received a PSF Community Award. Congrats to the both of you. I just wish that the PSF blog was a little more verbose about why these guys got the award and how one gets selected.
• Sean Reifschneider created a new CookieSession to the bottlesession library
• kitchen 0.2.2 was released this week. According to the blog, “Kitchen is a python module of small, useful snippets of code. It has functions to help with internationalizing applications, working with unicode and byte strings, iterators, and a whole bunch more.”
• PyCon 2011 Tutorials are up
• 2 Python and the Cloud articles: The Promise of the Cloud and Cloud Snakes
• The Sphinx project had a new release this week.
• PyCon 2011 has a listing of their accepted talks up (finally!)

Lots of web technology releases this week. Everyone seems to be getting more and more pumped about web apps, so I suppose I will have to start digging into the various Python-related web frameworks and learn their inner workings.

Just to mix things up a little, I’ll include a few random Twitter tweets I found:

• luzifer1984: New Experimental #Python #GAE Datastore API via GVR>> http://goo.gl/agx9T
• lashingpumpkin: RT @ojiidotch: Dear #Python Developers: Stop putting your downloads somewhere else than pypi. Thank you!
• szul: #FF for app building @appcelerator @ActiveState #titanium #python #javascript

Have a great week!

Last year, we covered some tips and tricks for the Grid control.In this article, we will go over a few tips and tricks for the wx.ListCtrl widget when it’s in “report” mode. Take a look at the tips below:

• How to create a simple ListCtrl
• How to sort the rows of a ListCtrl
• How to make the ListCtrl cells editable in place
• Associating objects with ListCtrl rows
• Alternate the row colors of a ListCtrl

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