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Looks like a good replacement to ipython - Henry Prêcheur

"It was probably faster to read ssh keys from MySQL than their file-system. Apparently Engine Yard is using GFS which, according to what I've read, tend to be slow. When you have 1000+ keys it is probably faster to read it from a MySQL server which doesn't have the GFS bottleneck. But that's a rather special case. It illustrates well how little things can have a dramatic impact when you 'scale'. This kind of optimization might be useless or even harmless in other situations; but their particular problem it was worth it." - Henry Prêcheur

"That's an error, I'll fix it." - Henry Prêcheur

Do you have the environment variable PYTHONSTARTUP defined? file:///home/henryp/doc/python-docs/using/cmdline.html#envvar-PYTHONSTARTUP - Henry Prêcheur

That gives me no output. I maybe should read readline's docstrings, or something... maybe the api changed and I didn't realize it. - Arnaldo M Pereira

iPhones (but really gadgets in general), bikes, new computers - Ross Miller

Peacoat, laptop, and concert tickets :D - Rudolf Olah

Fixies are great! I would recommend to start with with a "flip/flop" this way you can switch between single speed and fixed. - Henry Prêcheur

after upgrading I noticed some odd inconsistencies in output; well, it turns out that the newer version has switched from SGMLParser (in view of Python 3.x) to HTMLParser which is a simpler parser that's much worse at processing malformed HTML. The informative link also discusses future developments, and other offerings. - Adriano

BeautifulSoup is not the best "real world" HTML parser anymore. Ian Bicking posted an interesting article about that on his blog: http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008.... I like BeautifulSoup nonetheless, just drop a few python files in a directory and it's installed. lxml might be better, but it's also a pain to install compared to BeautifulSoup. - Henry Prêcheur

"I don't understand with exec "make" the resulting classes pickle and not type: test.py: TypeClass = type('TypeClass', (object,), {'x': 42}) exec 'class ExecClass(object): x = 42' class NormalClass(object): x = 42 It works fine: >>> import test >>> import pickle >>> pickle.dumps(test.TypeClass()) 'ccopy_reg\n_reconstructor\np0\n(ctest\nTypeClass\np1\nc__builtin__\nobject\np2\nNtp3\nRp4\n.' >>> pickle.dumps(test.ExecClass()) 'ccopy_reg\n_reconstructor\np0\n(ctest\nExecClass\np1\nc__builtin__\nobject\np2\nNtp3\nRp4\n.' >>> pickle.dumps(test.NormalClass()) 'ccopy_reg\n_reconstructor\np0\n(ctest\nNormalClass\np1\nc__builtin__\nobject\np2\nNtp3\nRp4\n.' According to your example, you need to put the 'exec' class in __module__ too." - Henry Prêcheur

Anyway, why was ipaddr imported in the first place if there are problems? I don't know how things get into the standard library, but it would probably make sense to review something 'independently' before doing anything. ipaddr concepts being "under documented" seems obvious when looking at the documentation: http://docs.python.org/dev..., it seems that ipaddr mixes ip address & network in the class IP. Not necessarily a bad choice, but I find it surprising. - Henry Prêcheur

Which style do you prefer? - Paul Buchheit

Me, I like the new friendfeed design as it is, but I have to admit the second one is also very nice and clean - Cristian

engine design - Henry Prêcheur

See Command logic = - Henry Prêcheur

set() looks like a good way of doing that: http://docs.python.org/library... - Henry Prêcheur

ok, cool. problem solved - Philippe Mongeau

cool window manager - Henry Prêcheur

Considering how much email I got overnight on this, I can safely say that the editor war of the last century as morphed into the DVCS war of today. - Brett Cannon

I am sure it will turn into a "bike shed" discussion on the python mailing lists (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi....) Everybody has an opinion on it, it would be hard to write a more controversial PEP. Be prepared to hurt people's feelings, to be called names, and to be compared to a German dictator. ;) - Henry Prêcheur

It already has turned into a bike shed argument in previous threads before the PEP. And I know some people are going to be hurt no matter what I choose since there is no clear winner in this space yet. - Brett Cannon

Wow Amit! That was quite the story telling! Im quite amazed at all the things you've done! No wonder your soo happy! Well I hope you had your fun and excitement. In the mean while, as winters kicking in right now, we might be expecting some change! A change in weather hopefully to the better, it either has to rain or not! Mother nature is playing games with us :} Sony laptop battery - Amit Patel

Makes me wonder if it will be possible to write social media bots that go around posting random links they find from high-profile bloggers and every once in a while, add a plug for some new product or service. This is probably already being done on Twitter, but we'd never know for sure. - Bill Strathearn

POLL: What is your preferred way to use sqlalchemy? Plain sa mapping, the declarative extension or elixir? - Peter Hoffmann

plain SA mapping, Even if it is not the "coolest" way of doing things: it is the most flexible way. Also it removes the dependency to elixir or declarative --even if declarative is included in SA, it is still a dependency. - Henry Prêcheur

I am using werkzeug for a bunch of small http stuffs at work. It very neat, and lightweight. That's a WSGI toolkit with most things you could possibly want. - Henry Prêcheur

"Well yeah ... Ubuntu 8.10 was announced in programming too. It's fine as long as there are enough people interesting in programming in proggit ;)" - Henry Prêcheur

http://ie7-js.googlecode.com/ - Henry Prêcheur

Must buy this one! - Henry Prêcheur

"Look at the bottom of the page: Much music.; forex via Internet, forex trading; craps table; life insurance; levitra; buy viagra Surely They're joking ... or is it spam ?" - Henry Prêcheur

"Did not know :digraphs! Thanks for the tip ;-)" - Henry Prêcheur

"If you don't want this "stupid feature", don't install the plugin or don't activate it. And this plugin does not have the "magic behavior" of Word's "smart quote". If you copy-paste a piece of code into Vim with UniCycle activated, It won't convert "magically" quotes into curly quotes. Of course you can strew-up things with "smate quotes", but don't blame the feature, blame the guy using it for not understanding what it was meant to do. A good "smart quoter" should be able to tell when to avoid curly quotes. SmartyPants for example excludes text between <pre>, <code>, <kbd> tags." - Henry Prêcheur

"Wow! I did not know there was a bsd reddit! Thanks :)" - Henry Prêcheur

"No OpenBSD relies only on donations. They don't want to be bounded to vendors, like Linux is." - Henry Prêcheur

"The compilation time really goes up. I am using OpenBSD (with gcc 3.3) and Ubuntu (which comes with gcc 4.2, I believe) and gcc 3.3 is faster. I have not done any measurements, but gcc 3.3 does really "feel" faster. GCC is notorious for breaking often: it is not surprising since GCC is a huge piece of code and does a lots of things. Also an operating system is not so dependent on the compiler's speed. It rarely do lots of CPU intensive calculation. OpenBSD main goal is not speed. OpenBSD main goal is correctness. For example OpenBSD's disk IO's are probably slower than most Operating system out there. But at least it is solid. It never had problems like ReiserFS or lately ZFS. Every OS's out there make trade-off, and OpenBSD is about being rock-solid." - Henry Prêcheur

"OpenBSD's developers are quite conservative when it comes to incorporate new software. Perl is very unlikely to be upgraded to a recent version since they would rather get a rock-solid version of Perl than the latest fancy features. But despite this relative "obsolescence", OpenBSD is a great system to use. The documentation is clear and complete. Everything is done to have a simple, correct & yet powerful Unix operating system." - Henry Prêcheur

"I might also add: Always send a plain-text alternative with an html email." - Henry Prêcheur

"Interesting. I guess this solution is more "portable" since it involves only Django. But the amount of work required to define a new test_runner looks important. I just looked at the create_test_db function and it does not seem to be that simple to do. Thanks for the hint ;-)" - Henry Prêcheur