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Ferry Boender

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Enhanced Interactive Python with IPython

Through this article on Newsforge, I found out about IPython, an enhanced interactive Python shell. It sure works more comfortable than the default interactive Python interpretor. ONLamp.com has a somewhat more indepth article on IPython.

XPath and line numbers in Python

Something so simple, yet so hard to figure out. I’ve been strugling on and off with something for over a couple weeks. Here’s the deal: I’m using the Python SAX module in combination with XPath to find my way through an XML-based configuration file. When an incorrect option or value is given, I raise an […]

Python documentation

I’ve been doing some Python programming for the last couple of days. Now, Python is a pretty cool language, but its main problem is, in my oppinion at least, the absolutely terrible documentation. I can’t find anything in there. Thankfully, there’s always the Python Quick Reference (v2.4, v2.3) and the alternative Python Reference (It’s a […]

Python stability

I’m doubting Python’s stability: Traceback (most recent call last): File “./bla.py”, line 76, in ? print rssItemsLastSeen NameError: name ‘rssItemsLastSeen’ is not defined Segmentation fault I wasn’t even doing anything out of the ordinary.. Just fiddling around a bit with lists and dictionaries. Nice going python! ;-)

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