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Tag Archives: Python
TUCS Launch
Friday was our the first meeting of the new UTAS Computing Society Executive, which incidentally, was the first under our new name (TUCS). Since then lots of progress has been made: We launched our new Website, www.tucs.org.au. We began planning … Continue reading
Case-insensitive String Replacement (in Python)
One feature that Python’s built-in string replacement facilities does not provide is case-insensitive string replacement. This is a reasonably useful construct (that I use fairly frequently in other languages, such as PHP), which I couldn’t find code for after Googling … Continue reading
Python Ugliness
UPDATED: The code I posted initially had a slight bug in it, this has since been fixed. There is another bug in this code, which is addressed at the end of the post. This is part two in a continuing … Continue reading
Python Prettiness
Whilst in Melbourne, and on the recommendation of Anthony Baxter (current Python release manager) I picked up a copy of O’Reilly’s Python Cookbook, it’s certainly a worthwhile read. In it, I found the most beautiful piece of Python code I’ve … Continue reading
Cool stuff for Python Coders
Today at Day 2 of LCA, I attened the Distro Summit for the first half of the day, and the Gaming Miniconf for the second part, this particular post is going to focus mostly upon the gaming talks, since it’s … Continue reading
XKCD Does Python
People who do not code in Python now have no excuse… XKCD has acknowledged Python. Hurrah!
NCSS 2008 (First Post)
Well, after a three-months-and-a-week delay, I’ve finally been invited to be a tutor at this year’s National Computer Science School, which is held at the School of Information Technologies at the University of Sydney (in Sydney). I was a student … Continue reading
