Category Archives: Python

Making Server-Side MongoDB Functions Less Awkward

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Michael Schurter

I’ve recently switched my project at work to use MongoDB for the user database and a few other datasets. Currently I don’t use many JavaScript functions, but when I do I like to store them on the server so that … Continue reading →

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lxml vs. ElementTree

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Michael Schurter

While lxml has some excellent benchmarks about the speed of lxml.etree vs. ElementTree, I wanted to run some tests that were as close as possible to my own use case (fairly simple multi-megabyte XML files). Here are the results of … Continue reading →

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Python Packaging Talk

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Michael Schurter

I gave a talk at PDX Python last night on Python Packaging. It’s just an overview and introduction completely lacking in any practical examples. Python Packaging slides (ODP) Python Packaging slides (PDF) Let me know if the ODP source is … Continue reading →

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Switched tc-rest to webob

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Michael Schurter

Small update on my toy tc-rest project: I switched to using WebOb for creating HTTP Request and Response objects. Cleaned up the code a bit, but a real dispatcher is what’s needed to really remove the cruft. I’m anxious to … Continue reading →

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TokyoCabinet + fapws3 = tc-rest

Posted on August 8, 2009 by Michael Schurter

Have you ever wondered how hard it would be to tack a RESTful HTTP interface on top of a fast key/value database like TokyoCabinet? Probably not, but I did: tc-rest.tar.gz Components: TokyoCabinet – my favorite persistent key/value database pytc – … Continue reading →

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I Love Python: ZipFile Edition

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Michael Schurter

For a client web project I needed to create a zip file containing a number of generated XML files. This isn’t something I need to do very often, so I briefly considered just writing the XML files to disk and … Continue reading →

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