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For those of you seeking the goods, they can now be found at my new projects site. Recursively, one of the available projects is the project site itself: brockman*. Just install it, add your own projects, and away you go.
brockman is written in Python (of course) using the CherryPy web application framework and [...]

Man, I really enjoy programming in Python. I mean, it is really fun. Like digital Play-Doh.
I took an idea from, um, idea to socket-based networked client application with IP based security in one afternoon. Then, I continued with the idea and made a socket-based networked controller application that reads its configuration data [...]

So I released CherryAuth today. It is my first contribution to an open source project. Makes me feel kind of warm and fuzzy.
I hope it works (it does for me).
The idea is that it should be a system of enablers and providers of authentication for CherryPy web objects. Currently the [...]

Ok, I have uploaded a new version of my game code. It’s still not a game at all really, but I have done some new stuff. The main improvements are the ability to move in 8 directions on the map and to wrap around the east-west edges of the map. Also, the [...]

Holy cow. I happened to check out CivFanatics today and found some exciting info: According to Civilization IV lead programmer Soren Johnson, Civ IV is going to be scriptable with Python!! I am certain that I find this much more exciting than you, my readership, but since this is my blog, I had [...]

The other day, I stumbled upon OpenCiv - a Civilization I clone written in Python. I found it while searching for information on tile based strategy games in Python to learn more about making my own game (see a couple entries ago). The code for OpenCiv is getting on 10 years old now, [...]

Enough already. I’m through playing games!
Ok, not really, but instead of playing one right now I am making my own. I don’t have too many specifics right now. It is going to be a tile-based strategy game a-la Civilization (but not as refined/good/fun/insertPositiveAdjectiveHere). It is going to be what I make [...]

This question came up on the python tutor list:
What is the most convincing way to mimick this in Python?

#include <stdio .h>

#define SIX 1 + 5
#define NINE 8 + 1

int main(void) {
printf(”What do you get if you multiply six by nine: %d\n”, SIX *
NINE);
return 0;
}

I dutifully came up with this answer…

class define:
… [...]

Ok, needed to return only the numerical portion from a string like ‘h00009492a802.ne.client2.attbi.com’. Pretty simple to do in Python:

def onlyNum(s):
num = [n for n in s if n.isdigit()]
return ”.join(num)

Voila. And the result?

>>> s = ‘h00009492a802.ne.client2.attbi.com’
>>> onlyNum(s)
‘000094928022′

The idea was to check the amount of numerical [...]

After my wife commented that I write “useful programs”, that reminded me of this program that I finished up yesterday. Basically, you type in a word and it looks it up on merriam-webster.com and plays the pronunciation of it over your speakers. It only works on Windows right now, as that is where [...]