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Python links (and more) 7/2/11

mikele — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:23:21 +0000

This post contains just a collection of various interesting things I ran into in the last couple of weeks… they’re organized into three categories: pythonic links, events and conferences, and new online tools. Hope you’ll find something of interest!

Pythonic stuff:

Epidoc
Epydoc is a handy tool for generating API documentation for Python modules, based on their docstrings. For an example of epydoc’s output, see the API documentation for epydoc itself (html, pdf).

PyEnchant
PyEnchant is a spellchecking library for Python, based on the excellent Enchant library.

Dexml
The dexml module takes the mapping between XML tags and Python objects and lets you capture that as cleanly as possible. Loosely inspired by Django’s ORM, you write simple class definitions to define the expected structure of your XML document.

SpecGen
SpecGen v5, ontology specification generator tool. It’s written in Python using Redland RDF library and licensed under the MIT license.

PyCloud
Leverage the power of the cloud with only 3 lines of python code. Run long processes on the cloud directly from your shell!

commandlinefu.com
This is not really pythonic – but nonetheless useful to pythonists: a community-based repository of useful unix shell scripts!

Events and Conferences:

Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts Conference 2011
University of Nottingham Ningbo, China. The DRHA 2011 conference theme this year is “Connected Communities: global or local2local?”

Narrative and Hypertext Workshop at the ACM Hypertext 2011 conference in Eindhoven.

Culture Hack Day, London, January 2011
This event aimed at bringing cultural organisations together with software developers and creative technologists to make interesting new things.

History Hack Day, London, January 2011
A bunch of hackers with a passion for history getting together and doing experimental stuff

Conference.archimuse.com
The ‘online space for cultural informatics‘: lots of useful info here, about publications, jobs, people etc.

Agora project: Scholarly Open Access Research in European Philosophy
Project looking at building an infrastructure for the semantic interlinking of European philosophy datasets

Online tools:

FactForge
A web application aiming at showcasing a ‘practical approach for reasoning with the web of linked data’.

Semantic Overflow
A clone of Stack Overflow (collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers) for questions ‘about semantic web techniques and technologies’.

Google Refine
A tool for “working with messy data, cleaning it up, transforming it from one format into another, extending it with web services, and linking it to databases”.

Google Scribe
A text editor with embedded autocomplete suggestions as you type

Books Ngram Viewer
Tool that displays statistical information regarding the use of user-selected sentences in a corpus of books (e.g., “British English”, “English Fiction”, “French”) over the selected years

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Offline django docs

mikele — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:52:47 +0000

An offline copy of the django docs can be quite helpful if you find yourself doing development work without an internet connection. Obviously, django comes with its docs that you can generate (provided you have Sphinx and build tools). However sometimes a pdf is the handiest solution… here’re some useful links I found:

Docs in CHM and PDF formats: http://charupload.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/django-documentation-chm/

Docs as a django application: http://smileychris.tactful.co.nz/ramblings/django-documentation/ (see the screenshot below)

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Lispdoc – Online Lisp Documentation Search

mikele — Fri, 18 May 2007 11:09:36 +0000

I read this inonPlanet Lisp:

William Bland just keeps on improving lispdoc, his online Lisp documentation search utility. The utility has a lot of neat features:

A search brings up links to both the CLHS and key CL books and also provides a usage example.

Content is provided from Practical Common Lisp (PCL), Successful Lisp, On Lisp, the HyperSpec, and the docstrings of SBCL (and, soon, from CLtL2 as well).

Example code is from Practical Common Lisp, PAIP, ANSI Common Lisp, and a bunch of ASDF-installable libraries.

There is a Firefox plugin that lets you do searches easily in Firefox.

There is an htmlize utility that lets you input a snippet of lisp code and get a colorized HTML representation of that code (convenient for quickly getting something that you can put in a web page).

It provides documentation lookup for a lot of commonly-used CL libraries.

You can input search terms in a manner similar to SLIME’s “fuzzy-complete” (e.g. – if you enter “m-v-b” in the search dialog, it returns the documentation for “multiple-value-bind”).