18 December, 2006 – 8:42 pm
In my previous entry, I mentioned that Andrew was actually publishing the contents of all his Bazaar branches with his rsync script, even though he was only advertising a single branch. Yesterday I had a need to actually do this, so I thought I’d detail how to do it.
As a refresher, a Bazaar repository […]
4 December, 2006 – 2:46 am
Daylight saving started yesterday: the first time since 1991/1992 summer for Western Australia. The legislation finally passed the upper house on 21st November (12 days before the transition date). The updated tzdata packages were released on 27th November (6 days before the transition). So far, there hasn’t been an updated package released […]
19 October, 2006 – 4:13 am
In my previous entry about using the Maemo obex-module on the desktop, Johan Hedberg mentioned that bluez-utils 3.7 included equivalent interfaces to the osso-gwconnect daemon used by the method. Since then, the copy of bluez-utils in Edgy has been updated to 3.7, and the necessary interfaces are enabled in hcid by default.
Before trying to […]
The Python developers have been looking for a new bug tracker, and essentially put out a tender for people interested in providing a bug tracker. Recently I have been working on getting Launchpad’s entry ready, which mainly involved working on SourceForge import.
The entry is now up, and our demonstration server is up and running […]
Emmanuel: if you are using a language like Python, you can let the language keep track of your state machine for something like that:
def load_items(treeview, liststore, items):
for obj in items:
liststore.append((obj.get_foo(),
[…]
Back in January I started working on a new Python wrapper for the GPGME library. I recently put out the first release:
http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/pygpgme/0.1
This library allows you to encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify messages in the OpenPGP format, using gpg as the backend. In general, it stays fairly close to the C API with the […]
8 September, 2005 – 8:48 am
Anyone who has played with Zope 3 has probably seen the syntax used to declare what interfaces a particular class implements. It looks something like this:
class Foo:
implements(IFoo, IBar)
…
This leads to the following question: how can a function call inside a class definition’s scope affect the resulting […]
15 August, 2005 – 4:29 am
The Python developers have been discussing a migration off CVS on the python-dev mailing list. During the discussion, Bazaar-NG was mentioned. A few posts of note:
Mark Shuttleworth provides some information on the Bazaar roadmap. Importantly, Bazaar-NG will become Bazaar 2.0.
Steve Alexander describes how we use Bazaar to develop Launchpad. This includes […]
One of the features added back in Python 2.2 was class methods. These differ from traditional methods in the following ways:
They can be called on both the class itself and instances of the class.
Rather than binding to an instance, they bind to the class. This means that the first argument passed to the […]
Found out about The Python Challenge. While you don’t need to use Python to solve most of the problems, a knowledge of the language certainly helps. While the initial problems are fairly easy, some of the later ones are quite difficult, and cover many topics.
If you decide to have a go, here are […]