[Python Edinburgh] Tell us what you did with Python this year...

Mark Smith mark.smith at practicalpoetry.co.uk
Fri Dec 24 12:41:30 CET 2010


That is pretty cool. I needed a B-tree implementation a while ago and I
couldn't find a nice generic one... I wish I could remember what I needed it
for - or what I did instead - I didn't use a B-tree in the end! :)

--Mark

On 24 December 2010 10:31, Lars Wirzenius <liw at liw.fi> wrote:

> I wrote a B-tree implementation for my backup program. The B-tree uses
> copy-on-write techniques to allow very efficient cloning of trees (so I
> can have one tree per backup generation, for example), and is nicely
> pluggable so that the way tree nodes are stored on disk are easily
> controlled by the user, if they so wish. Actually, the user gets to
> control where the nodes are stored -- on disk, in memory, in the cloud,
> whatever.
>
> Both pieces of software are still work in progress, though.
>
> http://liw.fi/btree/
> http://braawi.org/obnam/
>
> On pe, 2010-12-24 at 10:19 +0000, danjac354 at gmail.com wrote:
> > I've been working on a number of extensions for the new Flask web
> > framework [1]. By day I've worked on a number of commercial Django
> > projects.
> >
> > [1] http://flask.pocoo.org/extensions/
> >
> > On 23 December 2010 23:20, Dougal Matthews <dougal85 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I read a post on the Python UK mailing list along these lines and found
> it
> > > really interesting. You can view the posts
> > > here
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-uk/2010-December/thread.html with
> > > the subject matching this emails. (It's annoyingly hard to link to a
> thread
> > > in mailman - who on earth would use that?)
> > > So the question is simple, what have you done with Python this year? or
> what
> > > do you want to do with it next year? Worked on anything cool? Learned
> > > something new?
> > > I'll let somebody else start this off but I'll add my round up
> tomorrow.
> > > Cheers,
> > > Dougal
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