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"Platypus is a developer tool for the Mac OS X operating system. It can be used to create native, flawlessly integrated Mac OS X applications from interpreted scripts such as shell scripts or Perl, Python and PHP programs."

If you jump from one distribution to another and then back to an older version one of the gotcha’s can be that later versions on newer distro’s can change your Subversion Working Copy repository data so it’s unaccessible from the older distro.

Mapnik is a Free Toolkit for developing mapping applications. Above all Mapnik is about making beautiful maps. It is easily extensible and suitable for both desktop and web development.

The supervisor is a client/server system that allows its users to monitor and control a number of processes on UNIX-like operating systems. It shares some of the same goals of programs like launchd, daemontools, and runit, although unlike some of these programs, it is not meant to be run as "process 0". Instead it is meant to be used to control processes related to a project or a customer, and is meant to start like any other program at boot time.

For this example we are going to create a robust command-line tool with the standard library of Python, by importing the subprocess and optparse modules.

An enhanced Python shell designed for efficient interactive work. It includes many enhancements over the default Python shell, including the ability for controlling interactively all major GUI toolkits in a non-blocking manner.

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The idea of atompubbase is that it is a rather thin layer over straight HTTP, but supplying the convenience functions that are really needed and plenty of hooks points for extension.

StaticGenerator is a Python class for Django that makes it easy to create static files for lightning fast performance. It accepts strings (URL), Models (class or instance), Managers, and QuerySets in a simple syntax:

This extension allows the Python interpreter to be embedded inside of PHP, allowing for the instantiate and manipulation of Python objects from within PHP.

This is where Django Evolution fits in. Django Evolution is an extension to Django that allows you to track changes in your models over time, and to update the database to reflect those changes.

The sched module implements a generic event scheduler for running tasks at specific times.

The import and from-import statements are a constant cause of serious confusion for newcomers to Python. Luckily, once you've figured out what they really do, you'll never have problems with them again. This note tries to sort out some of the more common issues related to import and from-import and everything.

L'auteur utilise Amazon S3 pour le stockage, Amazon EC2 pour convertir les vidéos, et Amazon SQS pour les échanges de messages durant le process, un must !