Tag: PYTHON

People are slowly but surely figuring out what S3, Amazon's new "Simple Storage Service," is good for. Blogger and developer Matt Croydon has written a quick (25 lines!) Python script that automatically backs up his photos from Flickr to S3. Cool. "After uploading 160 or so photos to Amazon, Croydon writes, "I owe them about a penny." I think that putting raw resources ...

The Blender 2.40 release was huge. Seven months in the works, it revealed a ton of new features including better character animation tools, a modifier stack, fluid effects, hair, and physics. The Blender 2.41 release was pretty hot on the heels of 2.40, but it adds a bunch of improvements to something I've been wanting for a long time: the Game Engine. The Blender game engine has endured a ...

Last week Microsoft released IronPython, a version of of the Python open source scripting language designed to interoperate with its .NET libraries on Windows or Mono, an open source .NET implementation for Linux. CNet News.com speculates that Microsoft will soon support IronPython in its Visual Studio development environment. IronPython's source code is available from Microsoft's under their ...

Who needs GUIs to create presentations? Not you, if you have Pylize. At least, that's the premise. Pylize is an app written in Python that will take a bit of HTML written by you and turn it into a PowerPoint-style presentation that can be viewed in any web browser. You define your presentation's slides and content in an HTML file, add a bit of style using its built-in CSS classes (or your own), ...

O'Reilly's Jeremy Jones is reporting that Guido van Rossum, creator and lead developer of the Python programming language, is now working for Google. Googler Alex Martelli confirms it in this thread on comp.lang.python, saying "I don't think there was any official announcement, but it's true—he sits about 15 meters away from me." Python is used in many of Google's projects, but ...