Posts tagged Python

irclog2html, the IRC log to HTML converter, is now (finally!) available from the Python Package Index. In other news, logs2html now copies irclog.css to the destination directory (if it doesn't exist there already). I've been noticing logs produced with irclog2html on random places, and sometimes they were unstyled; hopefully this will become rare now.

If you're using virtualenv, and after a system upgrade you get errors like ... File "...", line ... from hashlib import md5 File "/usr/lib/python2.6/hashlib.py", line 63, in __get_builtin_constructor import _md5 ImportError: No module named _md5 this means that the copy of the python executable in your virtualenv/bin directory is outdated and you should update it: $ cp /usr/bin/python2.6 /path/to/venv/bin/python or, better yet, recreate the virtualenv.

Martijn Faassen defends web frameworks in a rather longish post (you can tell it's 5 AM in the morning and I've nearly defeated the unread post queue in Google Reader). I'd like to propose a condensed version. Consider this slogan: Simple things should be easy; complicated things should be possible. Frameworks make simple things easy. Good frameworks keep the complicated thing possible; poorly-designed frameworks make the complicated thing more difficult than necessary; bad frameworks make even simple things complicated.

Disclaimer: I received a free review copy of this book. The book links are affiliate links; I get a small amount from any purchase you make through them. Grok is a Python web framework, built on top of the Zope Toolkit, which is the core of what used to be called Zope 3 and is now rebranded as BlueBream. Confused yet? Get used to it: the small pluggable components are the heart and soul of ZTK, and the source of its flexibility.

I've been testing (as well as writing) Python code for the last eight years, so a book with the words Begginer's Guide prominently displayed on the cover isn't something I'd've decided to buy for myself. Nevertheless I jumped at the offer of receiving a free e-copy for reviewing it. Short summary: it's good book. I learned a thing or two from it. I don't know well it would work as an introductionary text for someone new to unit testing (or Python).