Geocoding with Python and Yahoo
Juice Analytics has a Python class that uses Yahoo’s geocoding API. All you need is a Yahoo Application ID, and you can do up to 50,000 lookups per day. Cool stuff.
Archive | February, 2006
PyCon reports and pictures
Unfortunately, not everyone can actually be at PyCon 2006. So for those of us who are following along at home, Ted Leung has daily reports up from Day 1 and Day 2. And Eugene Lazutkin has two sets of pictures up with a lot more in his Flickr photoset.
PyCon 2006 coverage
Andrew is wondering wither PyCon 2006 on the web? The comments attached to his post include a lot of good places to check.
Building software with SCons
Atul Varma posted to the ChiPy list that his company uses a tool called SCons. It claims to be the “next generation build tool” and a cross-platform, Python-based, replacement for make with autoconf functionality. Quoth Atul: So far everyone at work is in love with this package; constructing our build system is now as much [...]
Why Paul Prescod promotes Python
Quoth Paul in Why I Promote Python at O’Reilly: Personally, I cannot stand this design aesthetic, because it divides the world into “programmers” and “non-programmers”. My dream is a world wherein all but the very lowest levels and tightest loops of programs are written in a language that is so simple that it can be [...]
