A lovely crash course.

"Pyflakes is program to analyze Python programs and detect various errors. It works by parsing the source file, not importing it, so it is safe to use on modules with side effects. It's also much faster"

"Asynchronous Processors/Workflow management for django."

"Fields for storing serializable data." Includes field types for JSON and Python's Pickle format.

I mistakenly assumed daemon mode was the default for mod_wsgi. Suppose I should rtfm.

The comment thread suggest a number of solutions as well.

"JavaScript to CoffeeScript written in CoffeeScript."

"oursql is a new set of MySQL bindings for python 2.4+, including python 3.x. " ooh, a mysqldb competitor.

I'm quite familiar w/ the Python way of handling this problem but the Ruby way confounded me momentarily.

Python port of Cucumber

"Cram is a functional testing framework for command line applications based on Mercurial's unified test format."

"fixture is a python module for loading and referencing test data"

"Fabric is a Python (2.5 or higher) library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks."

Helpful clearing up of things. Python uses what some might consider non-standard definitions for value and reference ... depending on your background in programming. It is all good though.

Timesaving tip.

Wasted 30 minutes trying to figure this out.

Love the engineering team at Etsy. They continue to crank-out smart & simple infrastructure tools.

"The goal of IPython is to create a comprehensive environment for interactive and exploratory computing."

"Phoshare allows you to export and synchronize your iPhoto library to a folder tree. It preserves both the original and modified image, your event and album organization, and applies your iPhoto titles, descriptions, keywords, face tags, face rectangles, places, and ratings to the IPTC/EXIF metadata of your images. You can export a full copy of your library, or just build a tree of linked images that require very little additional disk space. You can re-run phoshare at any time to synchronize any changes made in iPhoto to your export tree quickly. phoshare works well with file-system based photo management tools like Picasa, Adobe Bridge, or Windows Live Photo Gallery."

"Voracious is a customizable web feed aggregator for your browser"

"nts is an acronym for Note Taking Simplified. It provides a simple, intuitive format for using plain text files to store notes, a command line interface for viewing notes in a variety of convenient ways and a cross-platform, wx(python)-based GUI for creating and modifying notes as well as viewing them. Displayed items can be grouped by path or tag and can be filtered in various ways."

a fork I presume?

"Blogofile is a static website compiler, primarily (though not exclusively) designed to be a simple blogging engine. It requires no database and no special hosting environment."

"A collection of Python utilities for Mac OS X system administration."

"The FieldTree object is a kind of OrderedDict. The name Field refers<br />
to a label and value pair, usually called an item in Python.<br />
<br />
There are two main extra features that a FieldTree provides over an<br />
OrderedDict. The first is that when a field is set, it returns a Key<br />
object. This provides a kind of permanent link to the field. The<br />
second is that there are methods that allow for the access of any<br />
FieldTree objects nested inside a FieldTree."

"Mustache is a logic-less templating system for HTML, config files, anything"

"Social bookmarking system designed to run on Google App Engine"

"SimpleStore provides a way to store schema-less, zlib-compressed Python pickles in MySQL."

"An easy, HTML5, whitelisting HTML sanitizer"

"Supervisor is a client/server system that allows its users to monitor and control a number of processes on UNIX-like operating systems"

Digg's collection of open source code

"The existing Python support for the Flickr API uses features not available in the Google App Engine sandbox. This project aims to create a complete Flickr API module that will run on GAE."

"Disco is an open-source implementation of the Map-Reduce framework for distributed computing. As the original framework, Disco supports parallel computations over large data sets on unreliable cluster of computers."

"Bugs Everywhere is a “distributed bugtracker”, designed to complement distributed revision control systems."

"sioclog is a system for logging and displaying activity on IRC channels."

Or... "how not to use it"...

Piston is a relatively small Django application that lets you create RESTful application programming interfaces (API) for your sites.

"ZenQueue is an incredibly simple message queueing system. It was designed as an experiment, but the author thought it was pretty neat and powerful and decided to release it to the world at large. The latest release of this library includes faster and more stable client and server implementations, in addition to both synchronous and asynchronous implementations of the client and queue. The server, however, only exists in asynchronous mode."

"PIDA is an IDE (integrated development environment). PIDA is different from other IDEs in that it will use the tools you already have available rather than attempting to reinvent each one. PIDA is written in Python with the PyGTK toolkit, and although is designed to be used to program in any language, PIDA has fancy Python IDE features."

"Scour is an open-source Python script that will clean SVG files, removing a lot of 'cruft' that certain tools or authors embed into their documents. The goal of scour is to provide an identically rendered image (i.e. a scoured document should have no discernable visible differences from the original file)."

"Survey several basic AI techniques implemented with short, open-source Python code recipes. Appropriate for educators and programmers who want to experiment with AI and apply the recipes to their own problem domains. For each technique, learn the basic operating principle, discuss an approach using Python, and review a worked out-example. We'll cover database mining using neural nets, automated categorization with a naive Bayesian classifier, solving popular puzzles with depth-first and breath-first searches, solving more complex puzzles with constraint propagation, and playing a popular game using a probing search strategy."

"Python Twitter Tools (PTT) includes a Twitter API, command-line tool, and IRC bot."

Python command line parser lib (includes improves above and beyond optparse)

"An optimization branch of CPython, intended to be fully compatible and significantly faster." They are using LLVM which makes me happy.