Miscellaneous

From this tutorial you can learn how to build a friend network feature, enable users to invite friends to your web site, improve the interface with status messages and let users browse bookmarks of friends.

Many parsing tools have been written for Python. This column discusses a high-level parsing language built on top of Python. SimpleParse provides an EBNF-style syntax on top of mxTextTools that can greatly clarify the expression of grammars.

Extending Python in C is easy once you see how it all works, and an extension of Python is equally easy to package up for Zope. The hard part is wading through the different documentation sets in search of the nuggets of information you need, and this article has collected them for you. Article includes code snipets....
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Pippy is a port of (a subset of) Python to the PalmOS. With Pippy, Python programmers can create custom applications to run on Palm devices, as well as use Pippy as an interactive environment directly on the Palm. This article evaluates the strengths and limitations of Pippy as a means of implementing Palm applications....
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