I have penciled into my calendar a trip  to Montreal to attend PyCon 2014.  In my moments of suboptimal planning, I wrote an overly ambitious abstract for a talk or poster session I was planning to submit.  As I sat down this morning to meet the deadline for submitting a proposal for a poster […]
Also tagged PyConBased 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 = […]
Also tagged Flickr, Flickr API, flickrapiAlthough 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.
Also tagged Django, 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++ […]
Also tagged SWIGIn the new year, I would like to deepen my expertise in all-things-Pythonic. One version I just installed today was Iron Python: IronPython is a new implementation of the Python programming language running on .NET. It supports an interactive console with fully dynamic compilation. It is well integrated with the rest of the .NET Framework […]
Also tagged IronPythonThe 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 […]
Also tagged pywin32, Windows XP, WMII just installed Python 2.6: Python 2.6 Release SourceForge.net: Python for Windows extensions — build 212 I've not had a chance to figure out how it's different from Python 2.5.
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