Daily Python-URL! (from the Secret Labs)Daily news from the Python universe, presented by your friends at Secret Labs.Making re-creatable random data files really fast in python.- May 31, 2008 Jesse Noller: Making re-creatable random data files really fast in python. "I wanted to be able to use a seed made of integers which only make sense to me that embeds certain data relevant to the test within it, so the seed would have both random and not-random integers in it. I also wanted to avoid using devrandom and devurandom - both are deceptively fast until you fire it up using a bunch of threads and drain your entropy pool. Not to mention - I want it fast, so I don't want to have an...http://www.pythonware.com/daily/#entry1145544832496608612 Yes, Barry, there is a PythonLabs- May 24, 2008 Yes, Barry, there is a PythonLabs "Served by Google App Engine"http://www.pythonware.com/daily/#entry6709801909021086340 Paver: Build, Distribute and Deploy Python Projects- May 21, 2008 Kevin Dangoor: Paver: Build, Distribute and Deploy Python Projects "Paver is a Python-based builddistributiondeployment scripting tool along the lines of Make or Rake. What makes Paver unique is its integration with commonly used Python libraries. Common tasks that were easy before remain easy. More importantly, dealing with your applications specific needs and requirements is now much easier."http://www.pythonware.com/daily/#entry7710489037828270241 appengine vs twitter- May 20, 2008 Eric Moritz: appengine vs twitter "So Glenn Franxman was opining this afternoon about how twitter is going to reach a point where they're going to grow to big and need to make money somehow. He said that they're either going to have to throw ads everywhere or hope to be aquired. He thinks that they're like every startup in web 2.0 where they're hoping to be aquired by Google. I said to him, "Why would Google aquire them I could write twitter on google app engine in like 30 minutes." Well it...http://www.pythonware.com/daily/#entry6611085733486856907 Using Git as a versioned data store in Python- May 15, 2008 John Wiegley: Using Git as a versioned data store in Python "... while most people do simply use Git as a version control system, it remains true that it can be used for other tasks as well. For example, if you ever need to store mutating data in a series of snapshots, Git may be just what you need. It's fast, efficient, and offers a large array of command-line tools for examining and mutating the resulting data store. To support this kind of usage &8211; for the upcoming purpose of maintaining.http://www.pythonware.com/daily/#entry2991901146691564289 Security fix released- May 14, 2008 Django: Security fix released "The Django administration application will, when accessed by a user who is not sufficiently authenticated, display a login form and ask the user to provide the necessary credentials before displaying the requested page. This form will be submitted to the URL the user attempted to access, by supplying the current request path as the value of the form's "action" attribute. The value of the request path was not being escaped, creating an opportunity for a cross-site.http://www.pythonware.com/daily/#entry8548290928688797382 An Open Source App: Rietveld Code Review Tool- May 7, 2008 Guido van Rossum: An Open Source App: Rietveld Code Review Tool "My first project as a Google engineer was an internal web app for code review. ... now that I work on the Google App Engine team, I've been able to write a new web app that incorporates many ideas (and even some code!) from Mondrian, and release it as open source. The Python open source community has been trying out Rietveld for the past few days, and has already been using it to do code reviews for Python (as well as providing...http://www.pythonware.com/daily/#entry2964685431609828289 |