Blogspot - aroberge.blogspot.com - Only Python
General Information:
Latest News:
Correction: Javascript NOT more dynamic than Python 2 Mar 2013 | 07:24 am
EDITED: Adam showed me that I had missed a way to do something similar in Python as I added below. ==== After a very long hiatus, I'm finally back and working on a web version of rur-ple, my "Karel t...
Is there any merit to stepping back through the code? 9 Feb 2013 | 12:25 am
After a long hiatus, I have gone back to work on a new version of my very first project - essentially a clone of Karel the Robot - this time delivered entirely via the web (not yet available though). ...
Python for iOS: first look 16 Mar 2012 | 09:50 am
Jonathan Hosmer has put together a nice app Python for iOS, bundling a Python interpreter, a basic editor with output window, the documentation for Python 2.7 and links to a discussion forum. While i...
Porting to Python 3: What are you waiting for? 10 Dec 2011 | 04:30 pm
Lately, there seems to be a lot of posts trying to encourage people to port their apps/libraries/modules to Python 3. I'd like to add my voice and perhaps, use as a reminder this old post: more than ...
Errors should never pass silently 22 Sep 2011 | 03:38 pm
- The Zen of Python Lately, I have been programming a lot in Javascript, and have come to appreciate even more what Tim Peters expressed so well in writing what is now known as The Zen of Python. I...
Book review: Pro Python System Administration 17 Jan 2011 | 02:00 pm
Summary: Pro Python System Administration is a comprehensive book showing how Python can be used effectively to perform a variety of system administration tasks. I would recommend it highly to anyone...
My favourite Python one-liner 2 Aug 2010 | 04:01 am
I am slowly working on two new projects involving web-based interactive Python tutorials and had to set up a local web server for handling ajax request. After browsing the web, I stumbled upon the fo...
Profiling adventures and cython - Faster drawing and conclusion 18 Jan 2010 | 09:14 am
In the last blog post, I made use of cython to speed up some calculations involving the iterative equation defining the Mandelbrot set. From the initial profiling run with 1000 iterations in the secon...
Profiling adventures and cython - Introducing cython 18 Jan 2010 | 06:23 am
In the previous blog post, I made some attempts at speeding up the function mandel() by making changes in the Python code. While I had some success in doing so, it was clearly not enough for my purpos...
Profiling adventures [and cython]: basic profiling 17 Jan 2010 | 01:48 pm
In the previous blog post, I introduced a simple Tkinter-based viewer for the Mandelbrot set. As I mentioned at that time, the viewer was really too slow to be usable. In this post, I will start do so...
