Using kwargs to initialize an object

by By: Kerim in python | snipplet

Way to many (possible and/or optional) parameters for a class? Here is a 5 second tip for all those old style Java-type-programmers...

Use kwargs, simple setter methods and run through the keys.

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
class ...

Playing a mp3 stream with python

by By: Jens in python | snipplet

I listen to web radios aka music streams alot and usually do not really care how the players work. But recently i got somehow curious about how to play a mp3 stream with python. And it should run on my ...

A flash game portal with python

by By: Jens in python | tools

Some month ago i wrote about the mochiads api and introduced my python mochi lib for working with some aspects of the moch ads api. I did also mention i was writing something, and tada was a game portal for ...

The future of Imago

by By: Jens in ajax | imago

If you are a user of Imago you might already noticed that there hasn't been a new release for some month now. Frankly i do not spend much time improving it, neither do i really have the motivation. On ...

SVG Sierpinski Carpet Generator

by By: Kerim in natural | pysvg | python

Coded as described in the Construction section (square based part) in Wikipedia. SVG export requires pySVG.

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
License:
Copyright (c) 2007-2010 Kerim Mansour
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with ...

Free books on Python programming

by By: Kerim in python | resource tip

Occationally Stumple Upon gives me nice pages that i didn't know anything about before.

By chance i was sent to this site which contains (amongst others) free python books.

It's generally a good link list to all kinds ...

pySVG meets Trundle, the turtle

by By: Kerim in natural | pysvg | python

My python pySVG just got a mate named Trundle the turtle (named after a turtle in my kids english school book). For a while now I haven't coded much for pySVG. I had a lot of requests and emails ...

Fun with colors or making art with python

by By: Jens in python

Some time ago while going to work one of those silly ideas sneaked into my mind. I started wondering how it would look like if i take a picture, grayscale it and replace ranges of gray with a color. I ...

Finding empty directories

by By: Kerim in python | snipplet

I know it sounds trivial but as usual the trivial things are those that are most annoying. Running through the harddrive of my notebook i came accross way to much garbage manifesting itself through empty directories.

After some 30 minutes ...

List of 2D Map Editors

by By: Jens in game development | python

From time to time i stumble across map editors for 2D games, sometimes useable, sometimes just demos and of course the occasional jewel. I finally decided to maintain a list post of my findings.

  • GLEED2D Non tilebased map editor; Win ...