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How to combine http (xml/text) api with javascript api - described and implemented as a google appengine web application. This 4-part article series start with the basics, a simple php version and a ready to use ip geolocation mashup!

To work with lists many c/c++ programmer use a simple for-loop. I will try to explain how this can be made a little bit easier. Thinking functional will help to shorten und optimize code who can easy speed up development time and performance.

The Qt toolkit is a widely-used cross-platform GUI toolkit, available for Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, and handheld platforms. QT has a well-structured, but flexible, object-oriented organization, clear documentation, and an intuitive API. This article looks at the Qt library, with a focus on the PyQt bindings that let Python programmers access Qt functionality....
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The Part 3 of the series continues the discussion by illustrating additional capabilities, like currying and other higher-order functions contained in the Xoltar Toolkit. Article includes code snipets.

This column continues the introduction to functional programming (FP) in Python. The introduction to different paradigms of program problem-solving demonstrates several intermediate and advanced FP concepts. Article includes code snipets.

Although users usually think of Python as a procedural and object-oriented language, it actually contains everything you need for a completely functional approach to programming. This article discusses general concepts of functional programming, and illustrates ways of implementing functional techniques in Python. ...
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