Posts tagged Python

Today I happened to read about lazr.enum in a mailing list. I went to the PyPI page and saw raw ReStructuredText markup instead of a nicely formatted page. Now I know from prior experience that this happens when the package's description has an error in the markup. I thought I'd report a bug and provide a patch. Leap of knowledge: since I know lazr.enum was created by the Launchpad.net team I could safely assume they were keeping the sources in Launchpad.

This post started as a comment to Michael Rooney's question: Failing tests: When are they okay?, and then it became a bit too long for a comment. Green light by morberg, cc:by-nc For me the most important aspect of a build is to accurately represent my knowledge about the health of the product. New problems must be noticed as soon as possible. This won't happen if the developers are used to seeing (and ignoring) broken builds.

I've an opportunity to get to know Pylons. Here's an unsorted list of first (and second) impressions: Pylons has great documentation, though I did stumble upon a few broken links Pylons has a great development environment (instant and automatic server restarts; interactive Python console in your web browser on errors) It seems that nobody using Paste is interested in logging the startup and shutdown time of the web server SQLAlchemy overwhelms with TMTOWTDI zc.

I once needed to know about SyntaxError's attributes. Here's what pydoc SyntaxError from Python 2.5 says: | Data descriptors defined here: | | filename | exception filename | | lineno | exception lineno | | message | exception message So far so good | | msg | exception msg Hmm? | | offset | exception offset | | print_file_and_line | exception print_file_and_line Doh!

If you're developing a web application that runs on Linux, and a customer asks for a report in MS Word format, you're going to be in a lot of pain. One approach is buying a Windows licence, installing it in a virtual machine, and hooking up an application to drive it over COM, and then figuring a way to talk to the VM from your web app. A simpler approach is generating a web archive file (.