Tools

Python

Lessons from Python

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From personal usage

supybot-plugin-create : Supybot command to generate a plugin template (basic source and license)

On going projects

rewrite the PHP IRC/Wiki linker based on
- Sample Python Client XMLRPC from Dokuwiki
- Reading and Writing Files from Input and Output in Python v2.6.1 documentation
discovering Google App Engine (cheat sheet) by working on
- Distributed pmwiki statistics
  - Use appcfg.py to upload and deploy your application code.
  - learn more
- deploy sheclicked.it ?
- WikiBot and the possibility to monitor a set of pages for corrections/suggestions/etc
  - check also hooks/HTTP callback mechanism

Principle

read our current position on the log file (last successful writing in the wiki)
1. if no current position, create it and start at 0
read the log file from this position to the end of the file
write the content in the wiki
update the current position in the log file to the current end of file
return an explicit value and quit

References

Learn Python in 10 minutes from Poromenos' Stuff, 2006
The Python Tutorial from Python v2.6.1 documentation, December 2008
HOWTO Use Python in the web by Marek Kubica for Python v2.6.1 documentation
Getting Started with App Engine in Eclipse by Mano Marks, September 2008
- Based on Configuring Eclipse on Windows to Use With Google App Engine by Joscha Feth, June 2008

Note

My notes on Tools gather what I know or want to know. Consequently they are not and will never be complete references. For this, official manuals and online communities provide much better answers.