Python

Posted by Leo Soto on April 10th, 2009.

Wow, finally I’ve found some time after returning from my trip to Chicago.

The main reason to flight there was obviously PyCon, and being there was just great: Lots of clever and friendly people talking…

Posted by Leo Soto on October 4th, 2008.

The past week I was notified that my proposal for talking about Django on the Encuentro Linux 2008, an important Linux/OSS conference here on Chile :).

Posted by Leo Soto on May 30th, 2008.

This week, as part of my GSoC project, I had to do some work related with zxJDBC, the very cool DBAPI <-> JDBC brige which is bundled with Jython. Among other things…

Posted by Leo Soto on June 13th, 2008.

Every python programmer knows that doctests are really cool. Checking snippets of code just by the literal output that it would print when run on the REPL is both simple and powerful.

Posted by Leo Soto on April 28th, 2008.

While tracking a Jython bug related with some __cmp__ methods (on dict and unicode, ant least) I had to check how __cmp__ behaves on CPython. And got a few surprises:

>>> {} == '' 
False

Posted by Leo Soto on April 23rd, 2008.

This post is not exactly hot news, but late is better than never:

My application for the Google Summer of Code 2008, titled “Django on Jython: Supporting Python Web App Frameworks…