Archive for December, 2008

I’ve been a little behind on my posts what with the holidays here and me doing all sorts of traveling and migrating to the new server for pieceofpy.com I haven’t really had time to make any new useful posts. So just taking the time to let everyone know I am not dead and wishing everyone happy holidays and a good winter.

Oh and the new server is lovely. The specs are below and so far I couldn’t be happier.

  • 3.2GHz P4 Core Duo2
  • 2GB Memory
  • 36GB 15k SCSI (Mirrored)
  • 500GB monthly transfer

Posted by Wayne on 28 Dec 2008 at 22:37 under personal, project.
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As I am sure most of you have heard Python 3.0 (final) has been released. For me, this means some nights getting some continuing development projects updated for the language changes and freezing some projects in maintence mode with their own copy of Python 2.6 (or in some cases 2.4).

Some highlights

  • print is now a function: print(“5×5″, “is”, 5*5, sep=” “)
  • annotations for methods (I create a lot of libraries, so this is great!)
  • extended unpacking: x, y , *z = [1,2,3,4,5] now x is 1, y is 2, and z is 3-5
  • <> removed, use != (personal favorite cause I hate <>)
  • no longer can you from import * inside functions

See the whole list here: http://docs.python.org/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html

Posted by Wayne on 04 Dec 2008 at 20:26 under community, python.
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This month is a little calmer for me. No Iceland trip, no Thanksgiving trip, basically no nothing except work and side projects. So I figure I’ll have another go at this blog a day thing, minus the 1st and 2nd of this month because I had food poisoning.

November I made it deep in to the first day before my blogging stopped. Hopefully December will be better for me.

Unrelated note, get the book American Lion. Excellent book about Andrew Jackson.

Posted by Wayne on 03 Dec 2008 at 20:21 under personal.
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