MetaFilter posts tagged with python

What, a raw frog?

caddis — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:37:56 -0800

Friday Frivolity. We use only the finest baby frogs, dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in the finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope, and lovingly frosted with glucose. A recipe for the infamous Crunchy Frog. No frogs were killed in the making of this recipe. (via Neatorama)

Sparkline Information Graphics

netbros — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:25:24 -0800

Speaking of Edward Tufte (see below), sparklines are a type of information graphics characterized by their small size and data density named by Tufte. Sparklines were used by sites reporting the 2008 election and were first introduced on MeFi in 2005. There are now several ways to put sparklines on your own web site including: a simple jQuery plugin, a downloadable PHP library, a dynamic generator using a Python CGI program, and even a library for Ruby on Rails.

YouTuberama

nickyskye — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:22:20 -0800

YouTubeFilter: The Monty Python Channel: "No more of those crap quality videos you've been posting. We're giving you the real thing - HQ videos delivered straight from our vault." l a feast of vids 70 Signs of Intelligent Life at YouTube ( Smart Video Collections) l Book TV on YouTube l Computer History Museum on YT l 100 Awesome Youtube Vids for Librarians l Top 5 Most Inspirational Videos on YouTube l Top 10 Amazing Animal Videos l Top 10 YouTube Hacks l a couple of good YT member collections: TEDTalksDirector's YT vids and Basic Computer HowTo by Help Me Rick on YT l Amazing YouTube Video Tools Collection l Is YouTube the Next Google?

"An experiment in organic software visualization."

signal — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:56:19 -0800

code_swarm, an animated visualization of open source software project commits. e.g.: Python.

No Monty jokes...

WinnipegDragon — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:32:15 -0800

Earlier this year, the US Fish and Wildlife service opened an inquiry into the possibility of adding all snakes of the genera Boa, Python and Eunectes to the Injurious Species List. This move would effectively ban the import, export and inter-state trade of all species within these genera. The move follows increased sightings of Burmese Pythons in the Florida Everglades. These snakes are large, powerful constrictors that are capable of killing an adult human. Burmese pythons do have very specific care requirements but they are able to survive year-round in the warm, moist Everglades environment. The National Park Service has been keeping a close eye on their invasion, and the Pythons are already enjoying the occasional endangered Woodrat. The pet reptile industry is already up in arms about the ban, pointing out that several smaller, less dangerous species such as the extremely popular Ball Python would also be restricted under such a wide ban. Of course, some snake owners are not exactly helping their cause. Other reptile breeders also argue that the Everglades are a unique environment, and that the snakes could not invade any other areas of the continental US. However, the United States Geological Survey disagrees, and suspects that global climate change will only make matters worse.

Excel + Python

signal — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:38:30 -0800

Resolver One looks and feels like an Excel clone, except that it stores all the data and formulas as a Python program. You can add more code, or export the whole thing. It's in public beta now, and the commercial release will be free for open source and personal projects.

A mouthful of bytecode

Skorgu — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:57:16 -0800

Bytecode-based virtual machines are the Next Big Thing in programming. You can run Lisp, Ruby, Python, OCaml, and yes even COBOL on the JVM. Or if you prefer your languages to be a bit more melodic there's J#, A#, P# and F#. Even C/C++ has a bytecode compiler now. That's not to mention languages that have their own VMs like Erlang or that are writing their own like Parrot or PyPy. Some background for the confused: Computer programs are traditionally written in human-readable source code then compiled to computer-executable machine code. Bytecode is a sort of halfway point between the two. It's not human readable but neither is it tied to a specific architecture like compiled code is. Java is the canonical example: a program written in Java will run on any machine that has a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) from your desktop to your cellphone. With bytecode-targeted compilers programmers can write in their favorite language without being limited by the libraries and compilers written for it and have those programs run anywhere there's an appropriate VM.

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alms — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:45:10 -0800

How to write a spelling corrector in twenty lines of Python.

Orthodox platform agnosticism

Blazecock Pileon — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 10:05:50 -0800

I dare you to throw a bunch of compilers at me! Pshaw!

I'd like an interview, please.

darren — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 04:41:16 -0800

Lost Monty Python interview from 1975 Dallas TV station unearths interview with four of the Pythons from 1975, just as they were hitting it big in the states. Love the hair! Love the armadillo!

Great Googling Guido!

fish tick — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:08:24 -0800

Google reels in Guido van Rossum. Guido van Rossum's popular Python language will be the focus of his work and play. Lovingly stolen from MoFi.

Python Challange

Mach5 — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:44:49 -0800

Looking to learn that awesome programming language but lack the drive? Take the challange!

Augmented Maps

signal — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:38:20 -0800

Augmented Maps: dynamic, paper-based displays.

Sparklinkes Web Service

signal — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:48:39 -0800

A Bright, Shiny Service: Sparklines A web service implementation of Edward Tufte’s sparklines idea, in Python.

Eric Idle's Greedy Bastard Tour

rory — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 06:53:17 -0800

Around the States in Eighty Days. Monty Python's Eric Idle is three quarters of the way through a North American tour and keeping an extensive online diary as he goes. "I would never be sitting at home writing my memoirs like this. There's just something about the time available and the different places we visit that invites introspection."

Yellowbeard's Curse

Joey Michaels — Fri, 19 Sep 2003 14:41:52 -0800

The Late Graham Chapman and the curse of Yellowbeard. Yar, don't be making fun of a pirate captain, even a fictional one. The curse of the film eventually claimed the lives of actors Graham Chapman, Madeline Kahn, Peter Cook, James Mason, Spike Milligan and Marty Feldman - the only one of them who died while filming the actual movie. Harry Nilsson wrote an unused ditty for the flick and soon visited Davy Jones' locker. It didn't exactly do wonders for the careers of Cheech and Chong or Martin Hewitt, who played Yellowbeard's son. Watch it and feel like you too have been cursed. (More Inside, Yar!)

Interlaced | Paychecks Heusen

wanderingmind — Mon, 05 May 2003 20:13:31 -0800

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Terry Jones Monty Python Observer

thedailygrowl — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 21:31:55 -0800

Terry Jones of Monty Python fame attempts to apply the Bush administration policy to his own neighborhood.

ed — Fri, 31 May 2002 11:20:16 -0800

The Dark Side of Google? Google's first annual programming contest was a shrewd way to encourage Java and Python programmers. But this may be shrewder than the programmers who entered the contest realized. David Egnor may have nabbed a cool $10,000 as the contest winner, but for all the other entries, Google nabbed "worldwide, perpetual, fully paid-up, nonexclusive" rights.

Su — Sat, 23 Feb 2002 07:20:00 -0800

Peter Norvig has written a Python script that generated a 12293word palindrome. Impressive. But before you ask: No, it doesn't make any sense.
[via Play with the Machine]

nathan_teske — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 14:43:45 -0800

Lego meets Monty Python & The Holy Grail : a scary synthesis of geek culture from Tim Drage and Tony Mines of Spite Your Face Productions.