http://mathieu.fenniak.net The Ordinary Life of Some Guy Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:28:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en pyPdf and pg8000 have been ported to run under Python 3.0a1, in new Mercurial repository branches. pg8000 is a Pure-Python database driver for PostgreSQL, compatible with the standard DB API (although under Python 3.0, the Binary object expects a bytes argument). pg8000 does not yet support every standard PostgreSQL data ... http://mathieu.fenniak.net/python-30a1-support-in-pypdf-and-pg8000/ A new version of pg8000, a Pure-Python interface for the PostgreSQL database, has been released today. This version supports DB-API 2.0 as documented in PEP-249. The request to add DB-API support to pg8000 was the biggest thing I heard about over the last pg8000 release. Also new in version ... http://mathieu.fenniak.net/pg8000_v102/ pg8000 is a Pure-Python interface to the PostgreSQL database engine. Yesterday, it was released to the public for the first time. pg8000's name comes from the belief that it is probably about the 8000th PostgreSQL interface for Python. However, pg8000 is somewhat distinctive in that it is written entirely ... http://mathieu.fenniak.net/pg8000_v100/ PyPdf version 1.8 has been released. This new version features two major improvements over the last release. The first is support for the PDF standard security handler, allowing the encryption and decryption of average PDF files. The second major feature is documentation. The security handler was a fun ... http://mathieu.fenniak.net/pypdf-18-with-pdf-encryption/ I just finished building a webpage for this software release, so I thought I'd mention it here. Pybrary.Plot is a C# / .NET library designed for simple X/Y graphs and plots. It has the following capabilities: multiple datasets with independent line and symbol styling, numeric, date based, and time span based X axis ... http://mathieu.fenniak.net/pybraryplot/ You’ve just built your first database application. You’re proud of your accomplishments -- and you should be. You mastered the fundamentals of SQL: creating a table, putting data into it, and querying it. You took the basic approach: when it came time to sum a column of numbers, you wrote ... http://mathieu.fenniak.net/beyond_select_part1/ My friend Bradley is putting on a talk at "VanPy" entitled "Rapid Development of Enterprise-Level Web Applications". It is going to be an interesting case study of a large web application that was re-developed in Python over a couple of years. The application went from ASP and Windows ... http://mathieu.fenniak.net/vancouver-python-workshop/ In my last post, I kinda ranted about python development. I thought that I was being constructive and presenting a well thought out point-of-view, but it wasn't really. There were probably some ideas in there somewhere, but I forgot a couple important actions in writing. I did ... http://mathieu.fenniak.net/ever-want-to-unwrite-something/ Let's just get a little bit of a disclaimer out of the way - I don't know everything. I tell my wife that I do, but I'm not sure she's really pretending her hardest to believe me. Designing and developing a programming language is a hard job, and ... http://mathieu.fenniak.net/my-vision-of-python-3000-back-to-basics/ Finally! Apparently I must be unemployed in order to get anything done on pyPdf. I've finally released version 1.6 today. Major highlights include: Reads more PDF files than ever before. Supports reading and creating compressed content streams. Allows access to document information, such as the title, author, creator, and so ... http://mathieu.fenniak.net/pypdf-16/