Category Archives: Project

Lunatic Python

Lunatic Python is a two-way bridge between Python and Lua, allowing these languages to intercommunicate. Being two-way means that it allows Lua inside Python, Python inside Lua, Lua inside Python inside Lua, Python inside Lua inside Python, and so on. … Continue reading

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APT-RPM Article

I’ve written an article about APT-RPM to LWN, exposing features recently introduced in the software. Check it out!

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UTF8 to ISO-8859-1 xchat converter

Today I’m a little short in time, so I decided to implement one of the bit-sized tasks in my backlog. These UTF8 raw strings appearing in my xchat when someone else is using that encoding is bothering for a long … Continue reading

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Python dateutil module released

I’m a little late here, since python-dateutil was released last week. Anyway, this is a Python package providing powerful extensions to the standard python datetime module, available with Python 2.3. I wrote it because I really missed some generic date/time … Continue reading

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Updated XChat’s python plugin

After a long time of inactivity, I’ve updated the python plugin of xchat. There were some pending bugs, and new xchat features to catch. Here is the list of changes: Fixed the reentrance problem which made xchat freeze when some … Continue reading

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Why Lua was embedded into APT-RPM

Why embedding at all? APT-RPM is a port of the debian APT tool to RPM systems. Since I’ve started working in the project, I’ve been thinking about integrating a higher level language on it. Actually, it’s pretty easy to explain … Continue reading

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