Talk and tutorial proposals for PyCon 2014 are due tomorrow (9/15) . Â I was considering submitting a proposal until I took the heart the appropriate admonition against "conference-driven" development of the program committee. Â I will nonetheless use the Oct 15 and Nov 1 deadlines for lightning talks and proposals respectively to judge whether to […]
I want to have a hand in creating an excellent personal information manager (PIM) that can be a worthy successor to Ecco Pro. So far, running EccoExt (a clever and expansive hack of Ecco Pro) has been a eminently practical solution. Â You can download the most recent version of this actively developed extension from […]
Based on reading the Python FlickrAPI, I wrote a simple example using the flickrapi library: import flickrapi API_KEY = '[API_KEY]' API_SECRET = '[API_SECRET]' if __name__ == '__main__': # instantiate the flickr object with the API_KEY, SECRET to return ElementTree entities flickr = flickrapi.FlickrAPI(api_key=API_KEY,secret=API_SECRET,format='etree') photos = flickr.photos_search(user_id='73509078@N00', per_page='10') if photos.attrib['stat']: for photo in photos.find('photos').getiterator('photo'): id = […]
Tagged Flickr, Flickr API, flickrapi, PythonAlthough it seems that you can host Django on dreamhost (Django – DreamHost and JeffCroft.com: Setting up Django on Dreamhost), I might be looking for another host for Django, such as (mt) Media Temple, which is what is used by Django creator Adrian Holovaty for his EveryBlock project.
Tagged Django, Python, web hostingAlthough I plan to be programming primarily in Python (and JavaScript) this next year, I don't want to forget about C/C++. I hope to have an opportunity to use SWIG at some point to connect high-speed code in C/C++ with Python code: SWIG is an interface compiler that connects programs written in C and C++ […]
Tagged Python, SWIGI had been vaguely following Python 3 when Python 3.0 final was released on December 3, 2008. I decide to start coming to terms with what this new and intentionally non-backwards compatible version of Python means by printing out What’s New In Python 3.0 — Python v3.0 documentation and Linux.com :: Python 3.0 makes a […]
Tagged Python 3.0The end of 2008 is approaching, making it an appropriate time to take inventory of my life — which also includes a lot of my computer-related stuff.  In addition to cleaning up my office, I'm also cleaning up my Lenovo Thinkpad T60p, my primary work computer, whose drive has been close to its 100 GB […]
Tagged Python, pywin32, Windows XP, WMI