Monthly Archive for May, 2005

Alex Martelli Design Patterns

Published
by
doug
on May 20, 2005
in Python
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A good summary of some real-world python patterns.

Apathy

Published
by
doug
on May 5, 2005
in Politics
. Closed

I’m sat here watching the results, and I’ve realised I don’t actually care who wins. I suspect it is the same for a lot of people.

This isn’t apathy. I’ve thought about it long and hard, and I still don’t care. As long as the tories don’t get in.

PyProtocols

Published
by
doug
on May 1, 2005
in Python
. Closed

I’ve been trying out PyProtocols with a little application to run a moblog (inspired by Andy who has written one in PHP).

I’ve used the Twisted and Nevow versions of the interface/adapter system, but PyProtocols seems a lot more complete. Zope X3 also has it’s own equivalent system.

Having had a play with it, I think PEP 246 should be integrated into the python core - this is very useful functionality. This made me look a bit further into the state of play regarding interfaces and adaptation in python.

It turns out that the latest versions of Twisted (2.0.0) and Nevow use the ZopeInterface system (turn your back for a couple of months and it all changes!), and it does look rather as though that is becoming the ’standard’ implementation of these features, so next stop is to replace the pyprotocols calls with the zopeinterface equivalents…