Taken from Simon Willson's blog post.

# with os.path.walk
def delete_backups(arg, dirname, names):
    for name in names:
        if name.endswith('~'):
            os.remove(os.path.join(dirname, name))

os.path.walk(os.environ['HOME'], delete_backups, None)

# with os.path, if (like me) you can never remember how os.path.walk works
def walk_tree_delete_backups(dir):
    for name in os.listdir(dir):
        path = os.path.join(dir, name)
        if os.path.isdir(path):
            walk_tree_delete_backups(path)
        elif name.endswith('~'):
            os.remove(path)

walk_tree_delete_backups(os.environ['HOME'])

# with path
dir = path(os.environ['HOME'])
for f in dir.walk():
    if f.isfile() and f.endswith('~'):
        os.remove(f)

Sun, 12 Feb 2006 15:08:53 GMT

---

[ Quelle: ]
korakot (Korakot Chaovavanich)
http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/rss [ Verweis - Nachrichtenkanal ]

http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/posts/show/1463 [ Verweis - Eintrag ]

Quelle für Überlegungen, wie wir ggf. unsere Applikationen von PyGame zu Python auf dem Handy/Mobile übertragen könnten. M.E. sollte dazu ein einfacher Wrapper geschrieben werden, der je nach Fähigkeit des Endgeräts [wie schon bei AnyGui] eine entsprechende Realisierung benutzt.

I take the pygame code from here. Then, write my own pys60 part.

# pygame's typical beginning
import pygame
from pygame.locals import *

# pys60
import e32, graphics
from appuifw import *

Setting up the screen

# pygame
window = pygame.display.set_mode((468, 60))

# pys60
app.screen = 'full' # or 'normal', 'large'

Get screen or canvas

# pygame
screen = pygame.display.get_surface()

# pys60
app.body = canvas = Canvas(None, key.handle_event)
# you need to create key (a Keyboard instance) before this

Loading image

# pygame
monkey_image = pygame.image.load(file_name)

# pys60
monkey_image = graphics.Image.open(file_name)

Drawing image onto the screen

# pygame
screen.blit(monkey_image, (0,0))
pygame.display.flip()

# pys60
canvas.blit(monkey_image, target=(0,0))
# we may add a buffer, which will need buffer.blit(image)
# and canvas.blit(buffer) for equivalent steps

Loading and playing sound

# pygame
sound = pygame.mixer.Sound(fullname)
sound.play()

# pys60
import audio
sound = audio.Sound.open(fullname)
sound.play()


For Rect and Sprite, there is no pys60 equivalence yet.
I may write an equivalent class someday.

Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:34:56 GMT

---

[ Quelle: ]
korakot (Korakot Chaovavanich)
http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/rss [ Verweis - Nachrichtenkanal ]

http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/posts/show/1454 [ Verweis - Eintrag ]

Both the Unofficial Apple Weblog and Engadget, and presumably a few other people, are reporting the surprise launch of the 1GB iPod nano, shipping today at $149 in the US.


The iPod nano
At the same time, the price of the 256MB and 512MB iPod shuffle has been cut to $69 and $99 in the US respectively. All just in time for the billion song count down at the iTunes music store...

Update: The iLounge review (via Engadget) of the iPod nano notes that the backlight on the new 1GB is dimmer than the 2 and 4GB models.

...

2006-02-07T16:33:00+00:00

---

Vielleicht ist es an der Zeit, auf dem iPod unter Linux im Informatikunterricht Python zu erproben?
Die folgende E-Mail ging am 4. Februar über die Python-Ankündigungsliste:

Since May 2005 there is a port of python (v2.4.1) for Apple iPod.
Porting was an 'easy' job, the only consideration was how you can
write with a iPod, ipodlinux [1] people did an interface called 
iPodRead that allows you  type into iPod scrolling left or right 
on the wheel. (This affects to the file Parser/myreadline.c, line 47).

Furthermore, is necessary run configure with options: --without-threads,
--without-shared and --with-cxx and build it in a cross-compile
environment for ARM architecture.

You can see the differences between python original and python ported
source in [2].

First announce about the port can be found in [3].
More info about this port, cool pictures and 
binaries & source code in [4].

 [1] http://ipodlinux.org
 [2] http://www.ciberjacobo.com/en/diffs.html
 [3] http://ipodlinux.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1945
 [4] http://www.ciberjacobo.com/en/linux_on_ipod.html#python


-- Jacobo Avariento Gimeno http://ciberjacobo.com

[ Quellen: ]
Al.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheDailyAck?m=752 [ Verweis - Eintrag ] Python Mailliste

Linux Journal: Why Not Python?, Part 3 [«Now it's time for this new Python user to do the hard work--code the program to fill in the blanks of Sudoku puzzles.»]

http://www.pythonware.com/daily/rss2.xml [ Verweis - Nachrichtenkanal ]

http://www.pythonware.com/daily/index.htm#113951047035143361 [ Verweis - Eintrag ]

Building Decision Trees in Python: »Python is a good language for machine learning - it's easy to express powerful algorithms maintainably, and it's flexible to experiment with new approaches. Christopher Roach demonstrates the use and implementation of decision trees, a fundamental feature of datamining, that can help you find trends in your data.« [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: ONLamp.com]

http://www.schockwellenreiter.de/xml/rss.xml [ Verweis - Nachrichtenkanal ]

http://www.schockwellenreiter.de/2006/02/10.html#geknstelteSchlangenintelligenz [ Verweis - Eintrag ]

Auch wenn es ein trauriger Anlaß ist ... engl. deaf == dt. taub
ich kann mich noch an die Geschichte eines autistischen Kindes erinnern, für das der Vater mit PyGame eine »Lernumgebung« mit Fotos aus ihrem Umfeld erstellt hat.

Julie’s at home these days - since we found out she’s deaf in one ear, we pulled her out of school to do more one-on-one learning at home.

She’s good at associating words with the visual representation of the letter - she’ll see “S”, and say “That’s what Sienna’s name starts with!” - but bad at names of letters. So, I hacked up a quick wxPython script from the wxPython samples that will just show an uppercase and lowercase letter, which she can click through. It’s basically a quick-and-dirty flashcard program: source available, of course.

Because I wanted to track her progress, I hacked up a little Ning App to track her learning. As of today, she only recognizes J (for Julie) and X on the first try. So, we’ll track it and see how she does. LearningLetters. 20 minute app, probably less. It’s crude, but it works.

It’s easy to make this work for just about anything you want to track. Just modify the ‘choices’ array.

[ Datum/Zeit: ] Wed, 08 Feb 2006 11:48:39 +0000
http://crschmidt.net/blog/feed/ [ Verweis - Eintrag ]

http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/134/learning-letters/ [ Verweis - Eintrag ]

Python Cookbook: Classes for Working with URIs [«This is a set of classes I have used for dealing with URL parsing in an easy and convenient manner.»]

http://www.pythonware.com/daily/rss2.xml [ Verweis - Nachrichtenkanal ]

http://www.pythonware.com/daily/index.htm#113939132744067944 [ Verweis - Eintrag ]

Dev Shed: A PyGame Working Example: Starting a Game [«In 'PyGame for Game Development', I showed you the very basics of PyGame's graphical side. However, creating a game with PyGame requires a bit more. All the concepts described before need to be glued together somehow, and new concepts will need to be introduced in order to create a functional game. In this article, we'll do just that by tackling a working example of PyGame's capabilities — a Python-powered game.»]

http://www.pythonware.com/daily/rss2.xml [ Verweis - Nachrichtenkanal ]

http://www.pythonware.com/daily/index.htm#113941068248443887 [ Verweis - Eintrag ]

Man muss mit dem »Rest der Welt« in Kontakt bleiben ...
dann sollte man auch prüfen können ...

This is a python binding to the C libclamav library (from the Clamav project - http://www.clamav.net). It can be used to easily allow a Python script to scan a file or a buffer against known viruses.

2006-02-08 12:21:54.00Z
http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=rss [ Verweis - Nachrichtenkanal ]

http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/pyclamav/0.3.2 [ Verweis - Eintrag ]