Loghetti: an apache log file filter in Python As announced earlier on my personal blog, I launched an open source project on Google Code called "loghetti". It's written in Python, and is a foundation for what I hope will become a very flexible tool to help admins (myself… read more Brian K. Jones

Scale(1), Scale(2), ... Scale(n) Ted Neward attempted to pull apart some of the silliness in the debate over scalability with Can Dynamic Languages Scale?. In particular, one of the most important insights is: There's an implicit problem with using the word "scale" here, in… read more chromatic

TIOBE declares Python as programming language of 2007 I really don't know what this means, but here is the page that contains the headline. Further down in the page are a few details regarding the announcement. Here are those details: Python has been declared as programming language of… read more Jeremy Jones

setuptools tip - script creation My last two blog posts on egg-related topics had a title prefix of "easy_install tip". This post is related, but since it's handled with setuptools rather than easy_install, I'm prefixing it accordingly. Have you ever wondered how various packages you… read more Jeremy Jones

TMTOWTDI -> The Right Way to Do It J. David Blackstone has a pointed journal post entitled The Right Way To Do It which praises Perl's "There's More Than One Way To Do It" philosophy: TMTOWTDI is anarchy. It scares people who want to keep order by force. Allowing people… read more chromatic

You Can Use Statistics To Prove Anything That's Remotely True (TIOBE 2008) "Perl is dead", crows TIOBE's January 2008 index. The world belongs to Python. You see what you want to see in statistics though. For example, you could compare Perl, Python, PHP, and Ruby job trends. Don't drop those sigils yet.… read more chromatic

TPT (Tiny Python Tip): Virtualenv Google Group Ian Bicking just created a Google Group for Virtualenv here, and a bug tracker at launchpad for virtualenv here. I also have slides from a talk at Pyatl here Links: noahgift.com My O'Reilly Feed Virtualenv Google Group Virtualenv Launchpad Bug Tracker Virtualenv Package Information Virtualenv Slides Noah Gift

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