Extension for Twisted AMP to support dictionaries and lists

Henrik Thostrup Jensen announced on the Twisted Users mailing list he made two extensions for the Twisted AMP protocol. Currently there are two types: A dictionary and a list. The types of the element must be specified (key and value can be different in the dictionary), otherwise they are free form, i.e., the keys in […]

Adding automatically ez_setup in your SVN repository

For users that don’t yet have setuptools installed (or a too old version) or who want to include a copy of ez_setup.py in their package distribution, here is the one-true-way. This method is already documented on Phillip J. Eby‘s setuptools pages, but it’s buried in the middle, and I keep forgetting how to do it. […]

Security monitoring of Debian alerts is less than practical

I was looking for a program (command-line) that would allow me to check if a Debian system was up to date against all the offical security annoucements (DSA). Something like the program glsa-check which is available for Gentoo systems. I just found two, none of them being really useful: forgotten_name: It works, but the bad […]

Another fine new web framework: Clever Harold

Clever Harold is a new python web framework (another one :-) that uses WSGI as its core glue. This allows you to define your own stack of elements (sessions, authentications, compression, templates, etc.). It is really well done (for a 0.1 version), and, compared to other WSGI based frameworks (like RhubarbTart or Pylons), seems easier […]

Making and deploying a Twisted project as a service under Windows

What is the goal? The goal is to implement a program in Python+Twisted (using PB for network access) under Windows XP or 2000+, that can be run before a user logs on, so it has to be a windows service, launched automatically, at boot. Another goal is to show some developement patterns in Twisted. You […]

Twisted Weekly News #11

Twisted Weekly News #11 Author: Luc Stepniewski Revision: 1.0 Date: 2004/2/17 14:13:20 Copyright: © The Twisted Community Contents The Twisted Weekly News Discussions Articles/Sites related to Twisted Cool Things of the Week New/Updated Cool Software Current releases

Twisted Weekly News #9

Twisted Weekly News #9 Author: Luc Stepniewski Revision: 1.0 Date: 2003-12-14 Copyright: © The Twisted Community Contents * The Twisted Weekly News * Discussions * Progress * Cool Thing of the Week * Current releases If you have any new information, ideas, announcements for the next TWN, please write to me, <lior@gradstein.info>. TWN is also available […]

Twisted Weekly News #10

Twisted Weekly News #10 Author: Luc Stepniewski Revision: 1.0 Date: 2003-11-23 Copyright: © The Twisted Community Contents * The Twisted Weekly News * Discussions * Cool Thing of the Week * Current releases There wasn’t too much mail this week, so I merged the previous TWN with the current, as I was ill last week. If […]

Twisted Weekly News #8

Twisted Weekly News #8 Author: Luc Stepniewski Revision: 1.0 Date: 2003-11-23 Copyright: © The Twisted Community Contents * The Twisted Weekly News * Discussions * Progress * Cool Thing of the Week If you have any new information, ideas, announcements for the next TWN, please write to me, <lior@gradstein.info>. The Twisted Weekly News 8th Issue. Sunday, […]

Twisted Weekly News #7

Twisted Weekly News #7 Author: Luc Stepniewski Revision: 1.0 Date: 2003-11-23 Copyright: © The Twisted Community Contents * The Twisted Weekly News * Discussions * Progress * Cool Thing of the Week I’ll try to keep the pace with the TWN, continuing the work of Chris Armstrong. Thanks to Noa Harvey who is correcting my english […]