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Daily news from the Python universe, presented by your friends at Secret Labs.

How to make money with free software...October 30 2008

Stani Michiels: How to make money with free software... ["The Dutch Ministry of Finance organized an architecture competition for which a selected group of architectural offices (unstudio, nox, ...) and artists were invited, including myself. The goal of the competition was not to design a building, but the new 5 euro commemorative coin with the theme 'Netherlands and Architecture'. The winner will be rewarded with a nice price, but most of all with the honor: his design will be realized and will be a legal coin within the Netherlands."]

How would you sort 1 million 32-bit integers in 2MB of RAM using Python?September 25 2008

Ask a Google engineer: How would you sort 1 million 32-bit integers in 2MB of RAM using Python? [see also] [see also]

Unicode and permalinksSeptember 22 2008

Eli Golovinsky: Unicode and permalinks ["The idea of a permalink is to take the title (of a blog post or a test) and replace any characters that aren't numbers or letters with an underscore or a hyphen. Using this simple scheme, 'Unicode and permalinks' becomes 'unicode-and-permalinks', which is quite suitable for use in a URL. The implementation is a simple regular expression /.../ While this code works perfectly for the English language, it doesn’t work at all if string is a Unicode string containing something in Hebrew, Russian or Polish - language that some of our customers use. And so, I set out to write code that will essentially behave like the regular expression above, but will work for letters and numbers in all the languages of the world."]

Introducing the Django Debug ToolbarSeptember 21 2008

Rob Hudson: Introducing the Django Debug Toolbar ["The Django Debug Toolbar is a configurable set of panels that display various debug information about the current request/response. It is a small toolbar that, when activated, situates itself in the top-right location of the browser window. When particular panels are clicked, more details about that panel's content are displayed."]

In Praise of Scripting: Real Programming PragmatismSeptember 20 2008

Ronald Loui: In Praise of Scripting: Real Programming Pragmatism ["But there is emerging consensus in the scripting community that Python is the right choice for freshman programming. Ruby would also be a defensible choice. Python and Ruby have the enviable properties that almost no one dislikes them, and almost everyone respects them. Both languages support a wide variety of programming styles and paradigms and satisfy practitioners and theoreticians equally. Both languages are carefully enough designed that 'correct' programming practices can be demonstrated and high standards of code quality can be enforced. The fact that Google stands by Python is an added motivation for undergraduate majors."]