Archives week 42 of 2008

A few days ago one of my colleagues mentioned a scholarly article he'd read the night before.  Researchers were attempting to show a genetic link for thrill-seeking (novelty-seeking) behaviour with some success.  That is, for their definition of "novelty-seeking" they seemed to have discovered a relationship between (IIRC a particular gene) and the behaviour in ...

How would you merge large quantities of Python-accessible information into a pre-existing set of XML documents.  This approach combined lxml.etree (ElementTree) with Kid templates (based on ElementTree) to efficiently annotate a large tree of documents.  We'll look at how to use ElementTree (and how to use the query mechanism in lxml's implementation to search your ...

Definitely seems to have been a setuptools bug that karked my setup last week when trying to get TurboGears running with Twisted + Athena.  By downgrading to a previous version of SetupTools I was able to get TurboGears to run properly again.  Also ran into a weird bug where setuptools was causing a single character ...