Chameleon: Making Templates Fast
by Malthe Borch
Malthe has written Chameleon, a lightning-fast template engine that is speeding up Python for the web. Find out the secrets of his speed!
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Python Magazine
Vol 3, Issue 7
August 2009
Articles
Running Large Python Tasks With Hadoop
by Jon Miller
Hadoop is a distributed computing platform which scales linearly to handle petabytes of data. Learn what it is all about, and how you might drive your own massive data computations in Python!
Hashing With Python, Part 1
by JC Cruz
Hash functions are not only an important concept in computer science, but a crucial part of Python as well, driving one of its most important data structures: the dictionary.
Acceptance Testing .NET Applications using IronPython
by Jonathan Hartley
Python's simplicity makes it great for writing tests, even if the app you are testing is written in a different .NET language!
Import This: How to Wrap Source Code, Attractively
by Brandon Craig Rhodes
As the Editor-in-Chief, Brandon often has to make final judgment calls about making program listings fit the magazine's width. How does he cut lines down to size?
Welcome to Python: Advanced String Formatting
by Mark Mruss
The old percent-character formatting is on its way out in Python, and a sleek new "format()" string method is on its way in!
Random Hits: EuroPython 2009
by Steve Holden
The Python Software Foundation chairman shares with us the highlights of EuroPython 2009, where the community gathered for talks, tutorials, and discussion.
