Things read about Python

A portable Django development environment for Windows.

Looks pretty good, maybe I'll give it a try.

This app is a generic way to provide filters that convert text into html.

Python wrapper for the Google Chart API. The wrapper can render the URL of the Google chart, based on your parameters, or it can render an HTML img tag to insert into webpages on the fly. Made for dynamic python websites (Django,Zope,CGI,etc.) that need on the fly chart generation without any extra modules. Can also grab the PIL Image instance of the chart for manipulation. Works for Python 2 and 3.

Using OAuth for authentication is quite different then using Basic Auth in many ways, first major difference is that one don’t know the username until it is requested from twitter after completing the authentication process.

Search doesn't have to be hard. Haystack lets you write your search code once and choose the search engine you want it to run on. With a familiar API that should make any Djangonaut feel right at home and an architecture that allows you to swap things in and out as you need to, it's how search ought to be.

For the needs of my work I had to write a python script that will create an spreadsheet document (Excel type) that would work in any platform. This post explains how to work with pyExcelerator.

Fabric is a simple pythonic remote deployment tool. It is designed to upload files to, and run shell commands on, a number of servers in parallel or serially. These commands are grouped in tasks (regular python functions) and specified in a 'fabfile.' It is a bit like a dumbed down Capistrano, except it's in Python, doesn't expect you to be deploying Rails applications, and the 'put' command works.

This post shows a way to use triggers for denormalized data instead of the usual approch of using signals.

The Levenshtein Python C extension module contains functions for fast computation of * Levenshtein (edit) distance, and edit operations * string similarity * approximate median strings, and generally string averaging * string sequence and set similarity It supports both normal and Unicode strings.

Great explanation of how to conditionally avoid Django and send static files through lighttpd directly. Here is also explained how to use and integrate AWS for difficult calculation jobs.

Very simple way to define permissions... Very DRY.

Small how-to: Creating an image with a frame using PIL.

Great Python overview in German.

With Python when establishing a database connection add the following flag: init_command='SET NAMES utf8'.

Python implementation of Pownce API.

How to use plain SQL in Python.