The Voidspace Techie Blog

A Little Bit of Python: Episodes 5 and 6

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:19:29 GMT

Two more episodes of A Little Bit of Python have been posted. A Little Bit of Python is an occasional podcast on Python related topics with myself, Brett Cannon, Jesse Noller, Steve Holden and Andrew Kuchling. ... [385 words]

Encoding json on Silverlight with System.Json

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:01:49 GMT

At the backend of last I year I wrote a blog entry on decoding json on Silverlight. Well, the time has finally come and we're now encoding json to post back to our Django application. ... [365 words]

The all new and improved unittest: unittest2

Thu, 4 Mar 2010 13:43:29 GMT

At PyCon I gave a talk on some of the new features that are coming to unittest. unittest is the Python standard library testing framework. ... [346 words]

New Release: ConfigObj 4.7.2

Thu, 4 Mar 2010 12:28:07 GMT

A new version of ConfigObj has just been released: 4.7.2 This is a bugfix release with several important bugfixes. It is recommended that all users of ConfigObj 4.7 update. ... [447 words]

An Awesome PyCon

Thu, 4 Mar 2010 00:07:07 GMT

As always PyCon was awesome, I had a great time catching up with old friends and making some new friends. The conference wasn't bad either... ... [876 words]

A Little Bit of Python Episode 4: A Pre-PyCon Special

Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:13:48 GMT

A Little Bit of Python is an occasional podcast on Python related topics with myself, Brett Cannon, Jesse Noller, Steve Holden and Andrew Kuchling. The website is in progress and apparently nearly ready, thanks to Jesse and various other people who we will thank as soon as it is done. ... [233 words]

ConfigObj 4.7.1 (and how to test warnings)

Sun, 7 Feb 2010 23:52:41 GMT

I hate doing releases. I haven't managed to automate the whole process (I should probably work on that), although setup.py sdist upload certainly helps. ... [290 words]

Discover 0.3.2 and the load_tests protocol

Sun, 7 Feb 2010 23:25:47 GMT

discover is a test discovery module for the standard library unittest test framework. Test discovery is built into unittest in Python 2.7 and 3.2. ... [335 words]

Interview with Pardus Linux

Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:28:52 GMT

I recently did an interview on Python with the Pardus Linux magazine. Pardus Linux is a distribution developed in Turkey (by the Turkish National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology) with the goal of being usable by "normal" people rather than just geeks. ... [3716 words]

A Little Bit of Python Episode 3

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:00:06 GMT

A Little Bit of Python is an occasional podcast on Python related topics with myself, Brett Cannon, Jesse Noller, Steve Holden and Andrew Kuchling. We still don't have our own website although that is due to land any day now. ... [172 words]

Psyco 2 Binaries for Windows and Python 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:16:10 GMT

Pysco is a specializing compiler (a kind of JIT) for Python written by Armin Rigo. The difficulty of maintaining and extending psyco was one of the motivating factors behind the inception of PyPy. ... [191 words]