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Category Archives: Python

Local SMTP in Python

From this Django change : The easiest way to test your project’s use of e-mail is to use a “dumb” e-mail server that receives the e-mails locally and displays them to the terminal, but does not actually send anything. Python has a built-in way to accomplish this with a single command : python -m smtpd [...]

Python generators

Python generators are powerful, but perhaps a bit hard to understand. Luckily, a great tutorial on them can be found at http://www.dabeaz.com/generators/index.html .

Workout

My Google App Engine application is a workout followup utility. You can enter your times or distances, and the results are shown in list. Graphs were added using the Google Chart API. The URL is http://workoutfollowup.appspot.com/ (note : you will have to login with your Google ID). One of the things added recently is the [...]

Google App Engine

Python‘s creator, Guido Van Rossum, has been hinting at this for a while, and it’s finally here : Google App Engine. It’s a way to build and host web apps on the Google servers. I put a small app together, which is a very simple variation on the ‘The Django Form Validation Framework on Google [...]