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…
Category: PyTPMOTW
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…
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…
PyTPMOTW: First Post!
Doug Hellmann’s excellent PyMOTW series started 3 years ago yesterday, and I’ve loved every minute of it. His sheer commitment and dedication to his craft is to be commended; it’s not easy to find the discipline to sit down every single week and commit the time and research to carve bits in such a way…