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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]
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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?
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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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