On August 20th 2011 we’ve celebrated the first Python Day Uruguay. The audience reached more than 200 Pythonistas coming mainly from Uruguay and Argentina. That’s an amazing number counting on a population of about 3 million people in Uruguay. The event shipped a total of 18 talks organized into 30 minute presentations and mid-sized lighting […]
Category: Web Frameworks
Python web frameworks
You’re So Vain, So Why Not Use Vanity?
A few months ago I created a package called Vanity A few months ago I created a package called Vanity[0] that provides easy access to package download statistics from PyPI. You can find the source code here: https://github.com/aclark4life/vanity. I love this tool, and I use it all the time to gauge the value of a […]
Be careful with exec and eval in Python
One of the perceived features of a dynamic programming language like Python is the ability to execute code from a string. In fact many people are under the impression that this is the main difference between something like Python and C#. That might have been true when the people compared Python to things like C. […]