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Python Hits Major Release
News Developers of the Python programming language this week unveiled Python's biggest update in five years, version 2.5. The open source programming language has gained significant popularity as a complement to other open source server technologies...
[September 22, 2006, 17:25]
Python Standard Library: File Formats
White Papers Python comes with extensive support for the Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) file formats. Python also provides basic support for Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).
[October 18, 2007, 0:00]
Python Gets Faster
News Python, the open-source object-oriented programming language, has moved up the release of its final 2.5 version to this August, as a result of its successful "Need for Speed" programming sprint. Read the rest of this story on Builder UK, ZDNet UK's...
[May 31, 2006, 13:05]
LDAP Programming In Python
White Papers Writing programs that access LDAP servers is easy to do using Python and python-ldap. The python-ldap package contains a module that wraps the OpenLDAP C API and provides an object-oriented client API to interact with LDAP directory servers.
[December 12, 2004, 23:00]
Developers Prepare For Python Breakage
News The launch of version 3.0 of Python, expected within the next year, will see major changes to some fundamental elements of the programming language, release manager Anthony Baxter explained in a keynote speech at linux.conf.au in Melbourne.
[February 1, 2008, 9:43]
Get Yourself Into A Python CPickle
News Information is serialised in Python and then processed. Python is no different. First, the condiments.py script informs Python that we'll be using the cPickle module: import cPickle For additional information on cPickle and pickle, refer to the...
[August 15, 2002, 11:44]
Build A Rapid Web Development Environment For Python Server Pages And Oracle
White Papers Python programming language is so high level that it writes almost like plain English, looking like pseudocode to unaware programmers. The dynamic nature of Python lets the developer write a minimum of unambiguous code to accomplish even the most...
[October 17, 2006, 0:00]
Wrapping Your Brain Around Oracle + Python
White Papers Python, in particular, is not just easy to use but also easy to use well, producing code that is readable and well organized. PL/SQL is ideal for programming tasks within Oracle Database. Most Oracle professionals, however, aren't confined to...
[October 17, 2006, 0:00]
The Python Web Services Developer: RSS For Python
White Papers Python is an excellent tool for RSS processing, and this paper introduces a couple of modules available for this purpose. RSS is one of the most successful XML services ever. Despite its chaotic roots, it has become the community standard for...
[February 13, 2005, 23:00]
Cobra Takes A Bite At Open Source
News Heavily influenced by Python, Cobra runs on .Net, Windows, Mac OS, Linux and Solaris, and is said to combine productivity enhancements from a variety of languages. With Cobra development now supported by a number of discussion boards, Esterbrook...
[March 5, 2008, 12:52]
Eye2Eye: Larry Augustin Pt III
News As a programmer, where do you stand on the discussion as to the comparative merits of Perl and Python? The Python people all argue you do it anyway so it's good. I've never had the time to learn Python at all although I use Perl regularly.
[June 8, 2000, 7:02]
Jython Essentials: Introduction To Jython
White Papers It is an implementation of the Python scripting language written in 100% pure Java that runs under any compliant Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Using Jython, one can write Python programs that interact with any Java code.
[October 18, 2007, 0:00]
Open Source Would 'fork' Java - Sun
Talkback As mentioned elsewhere, there are many testaments to the successful use of an "Open Source" development method: Ruby, Python, PHP, Linux etc. Sun is just posturing, and the development of Java will suffer for it - languages such as Python are...
[March 18, 2004, 15:38]
Zope Launches Next-generation Application Server
News Zope X3 is mostly written in Python, with some modules written in C or C++. Zope developers have also extended the Python programming language so that variable types are specified, rather than being loosely typed, said Richter.
[November 10, 2004, 16:48]
TSW PhpCoder
Downloads It comes with full support for both PHP, HTML and CSS, and can syntaxcolor even more languages, including Python, JavaScript, VB.NET, C#. With the use of Python based scripting, you can extend the functionality of phpCoder even more.
[April 28, 2008, 16:31]
Open Source Application Server Gets Twisted
News Twisted, a widely-used networking framework written in Python, supports a large number of protocols and makes it easier for developers to add networking functionality to programs. The Zope 2.x application server is powerful, widely used but...
[January 10, 2006, 16:15]
Royal Bank Of Scotland Embraces Open Source
News The job advert said that the bank was looking for a developer with three years experience of developing with Zope and Python and "demonstrable experience of working with and scaling high volume Zope sites".
[January 25, 2006, 13:20]
Sun Challenged To Release Java's Code
News Sun's insistence on continuing tight control of the Java code has damaged Sun's long-term interests by throttling acceptance of the language in the open-source community, ceding the field [and probably the future] to scripting-language competitors...
[February 16, 2004, 7:20]
Google Launches Developer Resources
News The initial tool releases include Perftools and Sparsehashtable, for developers working in C++, and Goopy/functional, for Python developers. We know that this is a somewhat limited audience," he said of the initial focus on C++ and Python.
[March 18, 2005, 13:55]
So Why Not Put Linux On Your Business Desktops?
Talkback But personally I believe that having a mature GNOME desktop these days require you to have Python, MONO, Java running next to your regular application, which makes it hard to have all of them incooperate correctly (to work correctly).
[November 29, 2005, 8:48]
