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Van Lindberg
is a software engineer and practicing attorney. What he does most, though, is translate – from “lawyer” to “engineer” and back. He likes working with both computer code and legal code to get things done. Van’s current work touches both traditional intellectual property and the emerging field of open source…
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PyMOTW: abc - abstract base classes
By Doug HellmannJuly 5, 2009
Define and use abstract base classes for API checks in your code using the abc module.
PyMOTW: pyclbr
By Doug HellmannJune 28, 2009
pyclbr can scan Python source to find classes and stand-alone functions. The information about class, method, and function names and line numbers is gathered using tokenize without importing the code.
PyMOTW: robotparser
By Doug HellmannJune 21, 2009
robotparser implements a parser for the robots.txt file format, including a simple function for checking if a given user agent can access a resource. It is intended for use in well-behaved spiders or other crawler applications that need to either be throttled or otherwise restricted.
Four short links: 19 June 2009
By Nat TorkingtonJune 19, 2009
Inside-Out Multiplication Table -- very cool way to view the patterns of factors. Math is beauty with subscripts. High-Speed Camera -- capture 100 frames at up to 1M frames/second. The sample videos, of a bullet liquefying on impact and a shotgun string boiling past, are stunning. The Makezine high-speed photography kit is the cheap amateur version. Open Source Energy...
PyMOTW: gettext
By Doug HellmannJune 14, 2009
The gettext module provides an all-Python implementation compatible with the GNU gettext library for message translation and catalog management.
PyMOTW: json
By Doug HellmannMay 24, 2009
The json module provides an API similar to pickle for converting in-memory Python objects to a serialized representation known as "JavaScript Object Notation".
Visualizing the U.S. Senate Social Graph, 1991 - 2009 [Part 1]
By Andrew OdewahnMay 5, 2009
Arlen Specter's party switch was big news, but a quick visualization technique shows it was a long time coming. What other surprises might lurk in the Senate Social graph?
Four short links: 29 Apr 2009
By Nat TorkingtonApril 29, 2009
Moot Wins, Time Inc. Loses -- summary of how the 4chan group Anonymous rigged the voting in Time's 100 Most Influential poll to not just put their man at the top, but also spell an in-joke with the initial letters of the first 21 people. Time tried weakly to prevent the vote-rigging, and ReCAPTCHA gave the Internet scalliwags their...

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