I easy_install’d nose on my iMac some time in the last month, and tried to use it with options for the first time today, and I’ve found that a good number of the ones shown in ‘nosetests –help’ are actually not recognized when I run nosetests. Meanwhile, running nosetests with no options still works fine….
Month: April 2010
PyTPMOTW: PsycoPG2
What is this module for? Interacting with a PostgreSQL database in Python. What is PostgreSQL? PostgreSQL is an open source relational database product. It has some more advanced features, like built-in networking-related and GIS-related datatypes, the ability to script stored functions in multiple languages (including Python), etc. If you have never heard of PostgreSQL, get…
PyTPMOTW: PyYAML
What’s This Module For? Reading and writing files formatted using “YAML Ain’t Markup Language”” (YAML), and converting YAML syntax into native Python objects and datatypes. What is YAML? According to the website which houses the YAML Specification: YAML™ (rhymes with “camel”) is a human-friendly, cross language, Unicode based data serialization language designed around the common…
Tornado’s Big Feature is Not ‘Async’
I’ve been working with the Tornado web server pretty much since its release by the Facebook people several months ago. If you’ve never heard of it, it’s a sort of hybrid Python web framework and web server. On the framework side of the equation, Tornado has almost nothing. It’s completely bare bones when compared to…
PyTPMOTW: py-amqplib
What’s This Module For? To interact with a queue broker implementing version 0.8 of the Advanced Message Queueing Protocol (AMQP) standard. Copies of various versions of the specification can be found here. At time of writing, 0.10 is the latest version of the spec, but it seems that many popular implementations used in production environments…