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Quite some time ago, I wrote a list of what to do and what not to do when creating a Python package. In the spirit of that post, I have another do item:

Do include version information somewhere in your package. When I say package here, I'm referring to the Python concept - the thing ( Read more... )

Greetings, and welcome back to "Twisted Web in 60 Seconds". In the previous entry, back at the beginning of December, I promised to cover Twisted Web's proxying capabilities. For various reasons I've decided to dump that topic and cover something else instead. So, prepare to learn about Twisted Web's CGI capabilities!

twisted.web.twcgi. ( Read more... )

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Welcome back to "Twisted Web in 60 seconds". Over the previous two entries, I introduced Twisted Web's session APIs. This included accessing the session object, storing state on it, and retrieving it later. I described how the Session object has a lifetime which is tied to the notional session it represents. In this installment, I'll describe ( Read more... )

I've made some new releases of software formerly developed by Divmod, Inc. and now maintained by the community. These releases include changes from both before and after the end of Divmod. Click through to find links to release details.

• Pyflakes 0.4
• Reverend 0.4
• Nevow 0.10.0
• Epsilon 0.6
• Axiom 0.6.0

Welcome to the 16th installment of "Twisted Web in 60 seconds". Last time I introduced the basic APIs for interacting with Twisted Web sessions. In this installment, I'll show you how you can persist objects across requests in the session object.

As I discussed last time, instances of Session last as long as the notional session itself does ( Read more... )

Welcome to the 15th installment of "Twisted Web in 60 seconds". As promised, I'll be covering sessions in this installment. Or, more accurately, I'll be covering a tiny bit of sessions. As this is the most complicated topic I've covered so far, I'm going to take a few installments to cover all the different aspects.

In this installment, you can ( Read more... )

Welcome to the 14th installment of "Twisted Web in 60 seconds". In many of the previous installments, I've demonstrated how to serve content by using existing resource classes or implementing new ones. In this installment, I'll demonstrate how you can use Twisted Web's basic or digest HTTP authentication to control access to these resources.

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As of Monday, the 9th, I will be considering opportunities for short term consulting and contract work. Please feel free to contact me if you have a software challenge to tackle, particularly if it involves one or more of Python, Twisted, networking, event-driven architectures, massive scaling, or open source software.

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