Archive for the 'Python' Category

Pimping out your .pythonrc.py

I don’t wanna be hatin’ on IPython, but I don’t use it. I often favor fairly extreme minimalism in computing. Why install something if you can accomplish the same (or good enough) with what you have available? IPython has quite a lot of features and syntactic-sugar, but it is overkill for my needs. Instead I’ve been slowly crafting my ~/.pythonrc.py […]

Freebase

I’m working on a project that required a database of video games (name, release date, box-art, etc.). Too much information to input manually, so we began looking for commercial offerings. There are two players in the field: Muze and AMG.

It’s quite obvious they realize they have this market cornered, their sales representatives are the most […]

ReST for Markdown and Textile Users

ReStructuredText is freaking huge so users of lighter-weight markup languages can be easily put off. This is an absolute basics quickref to ReST for those kinds of users. Eye-ball the Closing at the bottom for a bit more perspective.

Headers Just use non-alphanumeric characters to underline (or under-and-overline) your heading. It doesn’t matter what you use, just be consistent with the character […]

Learning Django with IPython

IPython is invaluable for learning Django if you don’t know much about Python or anything about object-oriented prgramming.