Python – Wisdom And Wonder

A Hand-Held Mobile Computer Running Python

Here is a hand-held mobile computer running Python.

It does GRAPHING pretty well too!

Map And Track Wi-Fi Networks You’re Not Connected To

Ever wonder how wifi devices talk to each other when they don’t know that you are listening?

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Excellent introduction to Python's Pip

Excellent introduction to Python’s Pip.

Watching for uncommitted and unpushed changes in Git

With over 100 Git working copies, I wanted something to let me know what I had forgotten to commit or push. This is a basic approach.

The APIs are so powerful, finding the simple approach took time.

Installing Python.h for Pip Installs

Trying to install GitPython and got the error

fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory

And found the solution ~~here~~ here:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-dev

The Best Article on Python Decorators

Here it is.

Finding Python's package directories

Finding Python’s package directories:

python -c 'import sys, pprint; pprint.pprint(sys.path)'

(via djangobook)

How one class brought SICP back at MIT

Zombie-like, 6.001 rises from the dead to threaten students again. Unlike a zombie, though, it’s moving quite a bit faster than it did the first time. Like the original, don’t walk into the class expecting that it will teach you Scheme; instead, it attempts to teach thought patterns for computer science, and the structure and interpretation of computer programs. Three projects will be assigned and graded. Prereq: some programming experience; high confusion threshold.

(via MIT via keegan via planethaskell)

VIM as Python IDE

Here is a nice article about using VIM as a Python IDE.
(via reddit)

Python and Django look interesting in how they empower you to work with the web. I was reading some interesting points about both here (the one interesting part about Python is that you might not need to know it in order to appreciate Django).