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The Django book

The definitive guide to Django

This book is a must-read for everyone who wants to build websites and webapplications using the Django web development framework. ...
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Date: January 15, 2008
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A true story

A true story: let's make a web application!

This is a true story, the names have been changed to protect the guilty...

Once upon ...
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Date: December 22, 2007
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Get visitor's country

Get visitor's country from IP address

You want to know what country your website visitor is from, so you can automatically translate the page.

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Date: December 22, 2007
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From HAL to IBM

From HAL to IBM

You want to translate the string 'HAL'
into:
IBM (Go see the movie, if this doesn't ring a bell ;-)

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Date: December 22, 2007
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Tupleware

Removing items from a tuple and rebuilding the tuple using the builtin zip function

You have a tuple like:
mytuple = [('harry',60,5),('susan',35,3),('guy',28,9),('peter',56,1)]
and ...
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Date: December 22, 2007
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Capitalize every first word

Capitalize every first word of a sentence in a string
Turn:
mystring = "dwarf nebula was a wicked little dwarf. he was not ...
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Date: December 22, 2007
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Top 5 scary movies

I really like scary movies, or horror movies if you prefer. I do not like the word 'horror' though, because it is often associated with ...
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Date: December 21, 2007
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Simple search engine in Python

A simple search engine in Python

I think that a search engine for the contents of a website is a great thing to improve a ...
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Date: December 21, 2007
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Matplotlib and PyGTK app

About this tutorial

In this tutorial we will create a little application written in PyGTK and we will use Glade to create the graphical use ...
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Date: November 3, 2007
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Using SPE, a Python IDE

What is SPE?

Spe is a free python IDE with auto indentation & completion, call tips, syntax coloring & highlighting, UML diagrams, class explorer, source ...
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Date: October 11, 2007
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Why would users use your app?

This article is for those who are interested in how users perceive software and gives you guidelines in how to increase the usability of your ...
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Date: October 8, 2007
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Using MySQL in Python

MySQL is a very popular open source  database, it's used in in millions and millions of (web)applications. There is a module for Python that can ...
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Date: October 8, 2007
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Hello again

The old serpia.org web site is not with us anymore. I thought that it would be okay to start from scratch, most tutorials were pretty ...
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Date: October 8, 2007
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