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A Useful Script

While browsing the archives of Raphael Slinckx’ blog, among other very interesting things, I came across a post about a Python script of his, which uploads a text file on the on-line pastebin pastebin.ca. A neat script like this proves to be extremely useful sometimes.

Sockets Programming In Python

These are the articles that got me into network programming in Python: Socket Programming HOWTO by Gordon McMillan. Sockets programming in Python by M. Tim Jones.

More On cElementTree

These pages seem to have all the info someone would need in order to use the Python cElementTree module: The cElementTree Module ElementTree Overview From the benchmark results it is quite clear that this is the fastest XML data parser! PS: I haven’t managed yet to even test it by parsing my own RSS feed [...]

Google Login With Python

Patrick Chanezon explains via an example how to create a google calendar entry, through the Google API, by using the httplib2 and the cElementTree modules. Note that the version of httplib2, which supports GoogleLogin, exists only in the SVN..

Threads In Python

One of the best articles I have read so far about implementing threading support into Python scripts is one that was published over a year ago at the Linux Gazette. I found this document extremely informative and has helped me much: Krishna G Pai writes in his article: When programming, in any language, the capability [...]

GUIs For Python Programs

Two months ago, I decided to start learning Python. Although I have spent a significant amount of time with it, I still discover very interesting things I would like to spend some more time with. Here are some links, which I believe will get me started with pyGTK and Glade.

Python Crash Course

If you intend to extend your programming skills by learning the Python programming language, apart from the absolutely perfect official tutorial by Guido van Rossum, consider reading Magnus Lie Hetland’s Instant Python crash course. It’ll help you get started in no time!

DictExpress

This is a dictionary protocol server implementation written in Python. I decided to write this stuff just to learn Python. The goal is to create a full-featured dictionary server, while making the retrieval of word definitions from any source and in any language easy. The server is usable and acts as a proper UNIX daemon.