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Category Archives: Python
PyCon Brasil is a success!
That’s right. The first brazilian Python conference, which happened last week in Unicamp, was an enormous success. Even thought I had no doubt it would be an interesting event, I got surprised to see the excellent level of the talks … Continue reading
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Textual watermarks with Python Imaging Library
I’ve added a new snippet about doing watermarks with PIL.
Posted in Python, Snippet
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Decorator for automatic inclusion of function definition in __doc__
Python 2.4 included support for function decorators. Decorators are callable objects that may modify a given function or class method arbitrarily when they’re prepended with specific syntax to the function/method definition. The following code implements a decorator that will automatically … Continue reading
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Problem of the Week at University of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts has a very nice Problem of the Week service where they post a new math related problem every monday. At that time they report the percentage of people that correctly answered the question as well. To submit … Continue reading
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All combinations of N elements
Here’s a snippet to compute all combinations of N elements over K positions.
Posted in Math, Python, Snippet
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Permutations of all subsets
Another snippet to compute the permutations of all subsets.
Posted in Math, Python, Snippet
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Permutations and derangements
Two snippets to compute permuatations and derangements in Python.
Posted in Math, Python, Snippet
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Smart Package Manager is out!
After 6 months of fun working on the project in silence, Smart Package Manager was finally released. As the README says: The Smart Package Manager project has the ambitious objective of creating smart and portable algorithms for solving adequately the … Continue reading
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Progress Cell Renderer for pygtk
Here is a Progress Cell Renderer for pygtk based applications. It allows one to embed a progress bar inside a TreeView. It’s being used in Smart to present progress for downloads of packages and other items.
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Compiler warnings in Python’s SRE
After a long time, and many people complaining about it, I finally took some time to fix some annoying compiler warnings in Python’s regular expression engine. Since it’s a rather uncommon case, I’ll explain it here with a quick example. … Continue reading
Posted in C/C++, Patch, Python
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