Let me start with this proviso: Math is not my strong subject (okay, just stop right there with the Barbie jokes). I'll do just about anything to avoid writing complex equations. And most of the time, I don't have to. Most of the time, I can find alternative solutions, dependent ...

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My mission was simple - to crawl all of our artist databases, extract names and email addresses from a couple of different tables, and spin out some custom XML.

The tables - one for complete user profiles and another for users who have signed up to receive emails only - ...

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A few days too late ...

1. What's the coolest Python application, framework or library you have discovered in 2009?

PIL. Okay, maybe it wasn't exactly a new discovery, but I'd never used it before to the extent that I did in the last quarter of 2009, and ...

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Let me first give a little background on this project, and then I'll break down the script.

I'm working with a legacy image handling system that's more than a little convoluted. Source images for different music artists are uploaded through a multi-tenant CMS to a media server, to a DAV-enabled ...

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Following the lead of Catherine Devlin, Jesse Noller, and other Python bloggers, I've finally had a chance to comb through the list of talks for PyCon 2010 and come up with a few picks of my own. It goes without saying that I'll probably change my mind ...

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