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2009 Python Meme
This Python meme was started by Tarek and it sounded thought provoking so I thought I'd join in...
What’s the coolest Python application, framework or library you have discovered in 2009?
I have to say that the Python libraries that changed my day-to-day workflow for me has to ...
Woof - simply exchange files
Very simple local file sharing: `woof filename` serves the file over HTTP once (or configurable number of times), then terminates. It's a single Python script that can live in ~/bin.
NodeBox | Library
Lots of interesting bits of Python in this library, including things like linguistic analysis and semantic networks.
pympler - Project Hosting on Google Code
Pympler is a development tool to measure, monitor and analyze the memory behavior of Python objects in a running Python application. Pympler integrates three previously separate modules into a single, comprehensive profiling tool. The asizeof module provides basic size information for one or several Python objects, module muppy is used for on-line monitoring of a Python application and module tracker provides off-line analysis of the lifetime of selected Python objects. Python versions 2.4+.
NASA NEBULA | Services | Services - Overview
Nebula, NASA's cloud computing platform, uses Django. Following the list of open source projects being used here leads to some great and interesting results.
EveryBlock source code released / The EveryBlock Blog
Source code for Everyblock has been released. This is the Knight Foundation grant given to Adrian Holovaty, et al. and built on Django and Python. I'll be spending time reading the source.
Yolk
Yolk is a command-line tool querying PyPI and Python packages installed on your system.
Add Full-Text Search to your Django project with Whoosh
A nice overview of adding the new Whoosh full-text search engine to a Django project using signals to trigger a re-indexing.
Incredibly useful SSH flag
Eric Holscher demonstrates the -t flag to SSH and how it can be used to set Python paths or the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable on remote machines. A pretty handy trick.
What’s New In Python 3.0
The official docs on what's new in Python 3.0.
bitbucket.org
Mercurial hosting site much like GitHub, but with OpenID and issue tracking. Written in Django.
Python 3.0 Beta 2 released
Python 3.0 is getting closer and closer.
mysql_cluster
This database backend enables the user of master/slave databases nicely. It includes middleware to send POST requests to the master and most GET requests to the slaves effectively making database writes hit the master and database reads pull from the slaves. It also has nice controls to override this default POST/GET switching at the view level and even at the Python coding level. Overall the impression seems very well done.
pytoss - Google Code
A remote deployment tool written in Python with a focus more on shell commands than recipes for simplicity.
GitPython - Gitorious
Nice work by Michael Trier on GitPython, a python library for interfacing with Git.
Scatter pictures with Google Charts
A fun Python trick: you can use the Python Imaging Library to convert a picture into a URL which Google charts will render as the original picture.
BzrVsGit - Bazaar Version Control
Interesting overview of why bzr might be preferred over git.
iCalendar package for Python
This looks to be a pretty nice iCal package. I need something like this for our homebrew club's events list.
Fabric
Fabric is a simple pythonic remote deployment tool. This looks like a good Capistrano replacement for Python deployment.
Python Google Chart
A Python wrapper for Google's charting API that generates URLs and grabs images.