The Mouse Vs. The Python

I haven’t done a weekly round-up of Python links because no one seemed to really care when I was doing those. However I thought I’d give it one more try and see if there was any interest this time around. This past week, I finished reading my first web2py cookbook. I’m told there’s another book too, but I haven’t checked it out yet. I suspect had I read the other one first, the cookbook would have made more sense. If you’ve been a regular reader of this site, you’ll notice I’ve done several other book reviews the last couple of weeks too. Speaking of reading, here are just a few of the articles that stuck out to me this week:

• Logsna – a sane log output format (Ruslan Spivak’s blog)
• Python.org Redesign Request For Proposals (Jesse Noller)
• What Generators are for (Simeon Franklin)
• Recent Windows Changes in Python 3.3
• I think it’s exciting that there’s now an RFP out for a redesign of the Python website
• Nick Coghlan had a pretty interesting article about all the resources there are now for deployment, docs and testing

I don’t want to overload you on links and I know this one is older, but I have been really interesting in following Katie C’s gaming adventures. So I’ll leave you on that note. I hope you enjoy the articles as much as I did.

TurboGears is one of several web frameworks for Python that are available. The most popular by far is Django. Where I work, we chose TurboGears because of its integration with SQLAlchemy which supports composite keys. At that time, Django did not support that feature and I am not sure if it does yet. Anyway, I develop almost exclusively on a Windows box and have found the TurboGears’ documentation on the subject a little confusing. So here’s how I do it.

Note: We’ll be using TurboGears 2.1 in this tutorial (more…)

This week’s Python news covers new modules, updates to old modules, a newish Python Magazine (no, not that one!), an update on what’s going on with the new wxPython and more!

• “TurboGears Joins the Pylons Project” (Alt title: TurboGears Becomes TurboPyramid). I think the title says it all…and no, they didn’t really rename the project.
• wxPython’s “Project Phoenix” gets an update – this gives an update on how Robin Dunn is moving away from SWIG to make it easier to do documentation and the Python 3 port.
• Michael Foord’s new “e” module makes a debut…read all about it on his blog
• PET: Issue #1 – English translation of a magazine created by the Argentina Python Users Group. Yes, this is kind of old news, but I thought it was really cool and it needs YOUR support!

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• The PSF blog talks about high schoolers using Python to program robots under the guidance of Vern Ceder
• PyCrypto gets a Python 3 port courtesy of Thorsten Behrens. Check out the thread and download your copy to help find any bugs!

That’s it for this week. Next time we’ll be in 2011! That’s amazing! Anyway, I hope you have a nice holiday and you’ll let me know of any Python news that I should talk about for the next post. Thanks!