Recent blog entries for eopadoan

Py3k I18n

Improving on Sam Ruby's example, to show that, in Python 3.0, code (names) can use unicode characters (also, the default encoding of the interpreter now is utf-8):

$ python3.0

Python 3.0a3+ (py3k:61959, Mar 26 2008, 21:02:26)

[GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu6)] on linux2

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more

information.

>>> Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn = 'Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn'

>>> print(len(Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn))

20

>>>

Use with care :)

WebRant 2.0

Its a bit strange that all that some "technologists" have to say about Silverlight and Flex is "w00t! bling!".

The Web is about openness - human-readable data. MSFT should stop trying to pervert it and help the WHATWG.

Interesting emergent software

Long time no blog. So, to break the silence for a second, here is a list of cool new software that I have played with recently:

• CouchDB
  Schemaless, document-oriented database, uses JSON as the document Representation and provides a simple RESTfull API. Written in Erlang, with concurrency in mind. Recently adopted by the Apache Foundation incubator.

• Io language
  Prototyped Object-Oriented programming language. Minimum syntax, litle enough to fit in my head :), and lot better than Smalltalk syntax. Supports differential inheritance. Growing library, with Unit Test already, for example.

• Haiku OS
  Still in pre-alpha state, but already usable. Free software Revival of BeOS, binary compatible with R5. I will post some screenshots as soon as I get Firefox running on it.

Django Wikiapp

Checkout while it is hot: django-wikiapp

"RedirectedIO context manager and redirect_io decorator" recipe

My first recipe on ASPN.

Reinteract is fun. I present you rehtml:

[UPDATE] Forget the code you saw here, and checkout this project. Also take a look at this list of extensions.

Ubuntu 7.10 released - Bittorrent links

TODO(wnload) when I get at home:

Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop (i386) torrent

Ubuntu 7.10 Server (i386) torrent

Last week: 3 days teaching Python at FATEC. Thanks people, that was awesome!

Last weekend: Installed Foresight on my laptop. Great distro. More on that later.

Immutable Bytes PEP

It seems that the Py3k "bytes" will be immutable (just like the Python 2.x "str"), and a "buffer" type will be mutable. Just see the new PEP 3137

• Sam Ruby tryied to port the Univesal Feed Parser to Py3k. 91% of the tests pass, what is quite nice. UFP is a great piece of code, and one of the first things I would miss.

• PyGTK people started talking about the migration - this will be very appreciated too :)

Update: Do you know of any other migration initiative? Please, tell me!