Archive: August 10, 2005

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

1. I've just discovered Python's inspect module (official docs). This'll help me write an interactive help system for my Python-based interactive shell.

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2. Is there a similar shortcut to perl's while(<>){} in Python?

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3. A. Sundararajan's Weblog: Simple JavaScripting from Java (via Tim Bray) shows an example of JSR 223-compliant scripting in Mustang.

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4. Uche Ogbuji's Amara XML Toolkit. Easy to use XML lib for Python. 1.0 just released.

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5. Roger L. Simon: The Netanyahu Perplex. Links to a few differing articles on Israel's Gaza pullout. To read.

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6. Doug Cutting: Scalable Computing with MapReduce with nutch.mapReduce, via Chris, who links to notes on the talk too.

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7. TextDrive Weblog: Strongspace 1.0. Sexy. Here are the plans.

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8. IBM alphaWorks: Unstructured Information Management Architecture SDK. This is the thing IBM is open sourcing by the end of the year. Via Luc.

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9. Pulling Java Lucene into Python: PyLucene, by Andi Vajda. The 'paper.txt' down at the bottom has more.

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10. JPype - Java to Python integration. Not there yet, but looks promising. Needs more docs.

    Also see this Python/Java Wrapper Generator and another similar student project called PyJava.

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