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- Oldest files memeJanuary 3
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Doug Hellmann has brought a meme to my attention, and I’d be remiss in my duties if I didn’t act upon it.
Here’s how it’s supposed to work. Save a copy of this Python script, say as a file named oldest.py:
#!/usr/bin/env python """Print last-modified times of files beneath '.', oldest first.""" import os, os.path, time paths = ( os.path.join(b,f) for (b,ds,fs) in os ... - Users and the adminDecember 23 2008
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So, for as long as I can remember the single most-frequently-asked question about the Django admin has been some variation of “how do I set a foreign key to User to automatically be filled in with request.user?” And for a while the answer was that you couldn’t do that, really; it was and still is easy to do with a custom form in your own view, but up until a few months back ...
- Why I like pipDecember 15 2008
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So yesterday I explained some of the reasons why I don’t like setuptools. In essence, my objections boil down to one idea: application packaging and application development should be orthogonal concerns. The way setuptools works, however, seems to tend, inevitably, toward coupling them to each other. I gave one example — the way the default behavior of installing zipped packages (an ironic twist: the man who so eloquently explained how Python is not Java has ...
- On packagingDecember 14 2008
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So currently there’s a bit of a to-do involving Debian’s Ruby packaging team and the Ruby “gem” system. This document does a good job of summarizing the issues from Debian’s perspective. And of course, the Ruby side of it is no less heated; an example is here.
A lot of this is the usual back-and-forth between (on the one side) application developers working in one particular language, who want to distribute their ...
- Let's talk about Python 3.0December 5 2008
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There’s an old joke, so old that I don’t even know for certain where it originated, that’s often used to explain why big corporations do things the way they do. It involves some monkeys, a cage, a banana and a fire hose.
You build a nice big room-sized cage, and in one end of it you put five monkeys. In the other end you put the banana. Then you stand by with ...