My Python

Python Pyramid is a project that was born out of Plone, a Python web framework.

It's point of difference in the web framework world is its "no assumptions" modular design, giving developers full control over which liberaries they include for their projects.

This is a really powerful approach to web frameworks and sets Python Pyramid a part from the other web frameworks around.

Unfortunatly, like many other "child projects" that are born from prior projects, Python Pyramids help documents make the grand assumption that you are already an experienced Plone or Repoze developer.

This assumed knowledge creates a significant barrier to those who are not familiar with those prior frameworks.

Bye bye Kivy, hello Python Pyramid

It's time to refocus my learning efforts from fun hobby tasks to some serious work (yes, boring I know!)

I've been working with Python Pyramid for a while now and have already completed a number of commercial projects using the platform, howeve getting started was not easy for someone who is not familiar with Plone or Repoze

Have you ever been stuck on trying to work out what an object in an existing python script or framework does?

Meet the dir() function, a useful little guy who can help you explore the contents of any python object.

Let's say you have "root" object but you're unsure what you can do with it.

Out friend dir() makes that easy, simply pass "root" to dir() like this dir(root) and you will be given a list of all the wonders hidden inside of "root"

I battled with Kivy for a few weeks and managed to get my head around how the's components connect and work together, for example, how to define the root app, how to build user interface objects via KivyLang, and how to get the two to play together (yay!)

It's a really neat framework and a pleasure to use.

Through out the Kivy learning experience I picked up some useful tricks for Python Investigation, such as use of dir() and class.__dir__ and class.__doc__ (yes I already knew about help() however class.__doc__ feels more fluid for quick help info.

Q: What are you doing this Holidays?

pyFortstory - a Python Voxel game.

Booya.

Rediscovered heroku today.

First stumbled over it in what I think was ~2008 when I was thinking about learning Ruby because "gems are cool".

Have been trying to forget those embarrassing days and heroku must have gone with it.

http://pyjsdl-test1.herokuapp.com/

Mission complete, I successfully used the pyjsdl script to write and convert a python script into javascript

Next step, learning how to process and respond to keyboard input.

Discovered the dir() function last week.

For the uninitiated, dir() is a built-in function (doesn't require extra libraries) that gives you information about an object. Example useage: dir(class) will give you a list of the methods in that class.