Interesting Articles
- IronPython introduction for Python developers - A quick look at IronPython for Python / Linux developers
- Tokyo Cabinet and Python - Tokyo Cabinet is a scalable key-value database that can be used in high performance applications, including Python.
- Using MongoDB in Python and PHP - MongoDB is a no-relational document database. It main features are high performance and advanced features compared to plain key-value stores.
- MongoDB data management in Python - Description of the pymongo driver and data management in schema-free MongoDB database
- Searching multimedia sites in Python using public APIs - Search for video clips on YouTube and Vimeo, find slides on Slideshare, or documents on Scribd using Python and RESTful web APIS
- Aggregating and searching for developers projects in Python - Gather projects from bitbucket.org, github.com and code.google.com that match given search term using Python script
- Using Guardian OpenPlatform API - Guardian Open Platform is a new API from The Guardian for accessing it's publications, news and articles
- pyxdg - freedesktop.org specifications support - Handle application menu, file MIME types, recently used files, .desktop files and more used by Linux/Unix window managers.
- Pystacia - image manipulation library for Python - Quick look at Pystacia - no-compiler image manipulation library for multiple Python versions
- ASCOM for end user application developers - How to use ASCOM API to control astronomical hardware
GUI - PyQt4
- Introduction to PyQt4 - How to create applications with PyQt4
- Simple text editor in PyQT4 - First application in PyQT4
- Extending PyQT4 text editor - Adding more features using PyQT4 widgets
- QYolk I - List widgets in PyQt4 - How to use list widgets in PyQt4
- QYolk II - Containers - How to use a Tab Widget
- PyQT4 Text editor - final changes - Some advanced PyQT4 features
- QYolk III - List of updates - A new feature
- Harvesting data from websites using WebKit and PyQt4 - part 1 - Example use of Qt WebKit module to harvest data from complex web pages
- Harvesting data from websites using WebKit and PyQt4 - part 2 - Extracting data from parsed HTML code of a website with WebKit and PyQt4
- Harvesting data from websites using WebKit and PyQt4 - part 3 - Gathering final data for ad urls (final page title and URL) using PyQt4 with QtSql module.
- Building standalone MS Windows apps with py2exe - How to make standalone Windows applications from Python and PyQt4 scripts using py2exe.
- Building Mac OS X applications with py2app - How to make standalone Mac applications from Python and PyQt4 scripts using py2app.
- PyQt4 in Maemo Fremantle - Installation and configuration of Maemo SDK (Nokia mobile OS for N900 and other phones) and PyQt4 libraries.
- WebKit in PyQt - rendering web pages - qt-webkit provides WebKit API in the Qt library and it can be use in PyQt to render web pages
- PyQt events - A description of Qt events, and QListWidget example of handling mouse events.
- QtSql in PyQt4 - handling databases - Overview of QtSql classes in PyQt that allow managing databases and grid integration
- QGraphicsView and QGraphicsScene - Description of widgets for visualizing 2D data (images etc.)
- QTimer - making timers in PyQt4 - Description of timers available in PyQt4
- QScintilla2 and PyQT4 - Adding widgets for programmers to PyQt4.
- Making PyQt4 widgets with SIP - Tutorial on making PyQt4 widgets from Qt4 widgets using SIP.
- PictureFlow - listing images in PyQt4 - PictureFlow - extra PyQt4 widget
- Rendering PDF files in PyQt4 with pypoppler-qt4 - Description of pypoppler-qt4 - bindings for Poppler library.
Pylons
- Pylons and nginx - How to run pylons on nginx
- Pylons on cherokee - How to run pylons on cherokee
Google Wave
- RkTaggy - example Google Wave robot - RkTaggy is an example Google Wave robot written in Python. Get the source code, and read how RkTaggy is built.
- Embedding Waves on web pages - How to embedd public Waves from Google Wave using robots and JavaScript code snippet
Tests and Benchmarks
- Psyco - speeding up Python - Installation and usage of Psyco module
- Python, C and C++ efficiency on JPG thumbnail creation - There are several tools to make thumbnails: Imagemagick, PIL ,GD, and also EPEG/libjpeg. And we also can make Python modules from a C Epeg library and compare how much slower it will get if we use it from a scripting language like Python.
- Pylons benchmark on various servers - SCGI and FastCGI, Cherokee and Nginx
- Lighttpd and Cherokee Benchmark - Pylons and SCGI
- Simple Python Frameworks Benchmark - A simple httperf benchmark
- cherokee and lighttpdf Django SCGI benchmark - A small test
- Plain Files - server I/O benchmarks - How reading plain files imact performance



