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# Part II: Beginnings
So, let's say we're new to Python.
Let's get started!
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# Step 1: Pick a Release.
Pick carefully.
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# Step 2: Install Python.
Decisions, decisions.
* Download installer from python.org?
* 32bit or 64bit?
* Build from source?
* If so, Unix or framework build?
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# Step 3: Profit!
Let's play around. Maybe play with the GitHub API?
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# Ruby.
@@@ ruby
require 'net/http'
require 'uri'
uri = URI.parse('https://api.github.com/user')
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = true
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
req.basic_auth('username', 'password')
r = http.request(req)
puts r
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# http/url/lib/2
- Extremely unclear why there are so many modules.
- Search implies urllib2.
- Let's give this a shot...
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# Python (hours later).
@@@ python
import urllib2
gh_url = 'https://api.github.com/user'
req = urllib2.Request(gh_url)
password_manager = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
password_manager.add_password(None, gh_url, 'user', 'pass')
auth_manager = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(password_manager)
opener = urllib2.build_opener(auth_manager)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
handler = urllib2.urlopen(req)
print handler.read()
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#But wait — there's more!
@@@ python
import re
class HTTPForcedBasicAuthHandler(HTTPBasicAuthHandler):
auth_header = 'Authorization'
rx = re.compile('(?:.*,)*[ \t]*([^ \t]+)[ \t]+'
'realm=(["\'])(.*?)\\2', re.I)
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
HTTPBasicAuthHandler.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)s
def http_error_401(self, req, fp, code, msg, headers):
url = req.get_full_url()
response = self._http_error_auth_reqed(
'www-authenticate', url, req, headers)
self.reset_retry_count()
return response
http_error_404 = http_error_401
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# Admit it.
If this was you, you'd leave Python and never come back.
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# http/url/lib/2
- Which module to use?
- Worst API ever.
- An *extremely* common use case.
- I'd rather be writing ColdFusion™.
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# XML
- `etree` is terrible.
- `lxml` is awesome, but difficult to install.
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# File and System Operations
- sys | shutils | os | os.path | io
- Really difficult to run external commands.
- This blocks dev+ops folks from adopting Python.
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# Packaging and Depdencies
- pip or easy install?
- setuptools isn't included with python? Distribute?
- No easy_uninstall?
- Broken `setup.py`s
- "Released" packages not in the Cheeseshop
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# Date[time]s.
- Which module to use?
- Timezones
- The stdlib can generate but not parse ISO8601 dates
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# Unicode.
- LOLWUT
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# Testing.
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# Installing Dependencies
* Pip? Virtualenv? Never mentioned in the docs.
* python-mysql
* mod_wsgi
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# Integration Time
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# PIL
(On OSX, this is simple)