Design database systems with Glom
Glom supposedly lets you “design database systems” including both “the database and the user interface.”
Interesting… I wonder how this compares to Base.
Archive | June, 2006
PyX
From the PyX site:
PyX is a Python package for the creation of PostScript and PDF files. It combines an abstraction of the PostScript drawing model with a TeX/LaTeX interface. Complex tasks like 2d and 3d plots in publication-ready quality are built out of these primitives.
Sounds complicated.
Pygame.draw challenge
New PyWeek challenge:
Create a game in up to 64kbytes of source code using only pygame (and python stdlib). No additional libraries, no external files (even ones loaded from a network). That means no PyOpenGL, no PNGs, no OGGs, etc.
The deadline for entry is midnight on the 25th of June, 2006 (UTC+10). Get to work!
Simple XML manipulation
Bruce Eckel talks about simplifying XML manipulation:
Alas, I haven’t seen XML-RPC used yet in web-servicey things. I hope that it is used somewhere, but if you read my previous entry you’ll see that the first two services I tried to use — Fedex and the Post Office (and UPS apparently also works this way) — [...]
Dynamic module loading
Kevin Dangoor metions dynamic module loading:
…Phillip Eby just released Importing which provides dynamic module loading (it also provides “load object Y from module X specified in python dotted notation string” utility functions, which could eliminate a utility we have in tg.util.)
I’ve looked into this subject before (here and here), but all the solutions seemed to [...]
