Selenium is awesome

Even if you only use the IDE, Selenium is powerful for testing web-apps.

Just download selenium, startup the IDE and starting recording tests. Then just record the test through the IDE. Organize these tests into a suite and just save them as HTML tests. You can then just run them through firefox.

yield is awesome

Checkout this course on coroutines that use python's built in yield facility:

http://dabeaz.com/coroutines/index.html

David Beazley presented this at PyCon this year:

import awesome now works in Python!

Go grab the awesome Git Repository at GitHub: git://github.com/benthomasson/awesome.git

git clone git://github.com/benthomasson/awesome.git
python
>> import awesome

help() is awesome

It is awesome that I can look at the documentation for a module in the shell anywhere and at anytime.

help(awesome)

It is even more awesome that it uses 'less' to display the help.

It is even more awesome that I can call in a script and it still works the same way. Being able to introspect during execution using help is just great.

x = mysteryFunction()
help(x)

unittest is ...

Okay, the python unittest module is awesome, but the titles are getting repetitive. This little script will make running your unit tests even easier:

test.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import unittest
import sys

for module in sys.argv[1:]:
    done = False
    while not done and module != "": 
        try:
            exec('import ' + module)
            done = True
        except Exception:
            module = module.rpartition('.')[0]
        

unittest.main()

This will allow you to run any unit tests in any module from the command line.


test.py mypackage.test yourpackage.test
test.py mypackage.test.TestXYZ.testRun





Django is awesome

Django is an awesome web framework. It takes all the best parts of python and improves upon them with a template system is that is very pythonic. Combine this with lighttpd, JQuery, sqlite3, some CSS, and you have yourself a web-app in a few short hours.

After you have mastered that setup, move on to Google App Engine and revolutionize the world.

Python is awesome

I am fairly new to python, but so far everything about this language is awesome. I have dabbled in x86, MIPS, and AVR assembly, C++, C, Java, Lisp, XOTcl, and Prolog. Python has all the best bits from every language I have ever seen. Kudos to the community that developed it. It is awesome.