Archives Oct. 30, 2004
Pernicious Influence of Python (Still can't sleep...)
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As expected back when we were solving the Pernicious Influence of Puzzles, writing a script to generate all permutations of a word from a given word-list was a pretty trivial endeavour. Applied to our TRANSIT challenge the computer came up with a few we missed...
The ones I feel bad about:
artist
stain
taint ...
Oh, about SIP (Project shrinks as one realises how much is already written...)
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For the SIP project, discovered that Shtoom is, in fact, a user-level client... in other words, a Soft Phone. We need far less code than that for our project, in fact, it's all available from core Twisted.
Did a spike test creating a Proxy/Registration-server and a client to log into it in about 30 lines ...
Tracking down sample-code for PyOpenGL (Documentation enhancements take a long time...)
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One of the things I do to try to make PyOpenGL newbie friendly is providing sample code links directly from the PyOpenGL man pages to files from various projects which use the discussed function/constant.
This has proved very successful... so much so that we almost never get questions regarding how to use any given function/parameter. ...
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Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.