Hi there.
I'm starting with the diary feature of Advigato. I'll try to post interesting stuff here. English is a foreign language for me, so please be indulgent with my poor spelling and grammar.
Code generation in Python
I'm currently working for a new chapter in Logilab's Python course (link is in French), for a customer who wants to generate code using python. After talking with the person in charge, they want to generate some assembly code for some on-board equipment, but they cannot say a lot more, because there are some confidentiality issues. I'll probably end up generating C code. The problem is finding a good example for hands-on exercices. I haven't decided yet what it will be. Suggestions welcome ;o)
So I'm currently investigating parser generators in Python. The Python Parser-SIG has some interesting resources.
PyExpat and the Python profiler
At the same time, I've been hitting a problem when trying to profile some runs of xmldiff : the xmlparser pyexpat does some strange things with the Frames to call the python callbacks, and the profiler doesn't like it at all. See my post on the xml-sig mailing list on this.