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Twisted + Pygame the Easy Way

Posted on Monday 20 February 2012 by J. D. Bartlett

I’ve put together a Python package called fibre. It provides helpers to make it easy to write asynchronous applications. It uses Twisted under the hood. I’ve also made a package called fibre.ui. It adds user interface support using pygame. One … Continue reading →

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Subclass ’em Functions

Posted on Monday 13 February 2012 by J. D. Bartlett

Quick Summary I’ve got a simple Python helper class, in the talljosh package, that lets you write things that behave as functions but can be extended by subclassing. But Why? Consider the following Python function, found in json/encoder.py in the … Continue reading →

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Inline Deferreds in Twisted (Without Yield)

Posted on Monday 21 February 2011 by J. D. Bartlett

Introduction By buffer of new stuff to blog about is getting low, so today I bring you something I played with a bit last year. After being introduced to Twisted‘s inlineDeferred decorator, I decided to have some fun with that … Continue reading →

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Python: Context-Sensitive Formatting

Posted on Monday 7 February 2011 by J. D. Bartlett

Introduction Python’s new string formatting syntax, introduced in Python 2.6, provides many advantages over the old %-based formatting.  I’ve set out to extend this string formatting, in order to help developers avoid making silly mistakes like forgetting to quote special … Continue reading →

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Vim and Breakindent

Posted on Monday 31 January 2011 by J. D. Bartlett

My contention: Programmers should never have to insert line breaks into long lines of code. Why: The position of line breaks in long lines of code does not contain any semantic information.  Where coding standards limit line length, it is … Continue reading →

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