Setuptools on Python 3: Work on hold.

Edit: Distribute now supports Python 3. This posting is therefore outdated and no longer of interest. Go away.
I’ve currently suspended the work on porting Setuptools to Python 3. If you need it, there is the version I made earlier on the Python-incompatibility project page. It seems to work. If people want to fix [...]

Extra, extra: Internet outlawed in Sweden!

(Yeah, yeah, sensationalist headlines blah blah blah. I like them. Get used to it.)
Today the court presented the verdict in the Pirate Bay trial. The defendants were found guilty. Basically, they were punished as accomplishes for helping people share files illegally. Hence, from today, under Swedish law, Internet basically became illegal. Linking to illegalities are [...]

Comments on Django’s design decisions

In my talk about what Zope did wrong, I tried to tell the world not to repeat Zope’s mistakes, and I learned at PyCon 2008 that Django have repeated some of them. Mark Ramm also did his keynote on what Django can learn from Zope at last year’s DjangoCon. So I don’t know if it [...]

Wazzup in San Francisco area end of July?

Before I book tickets and hotels to OSCON, the July 22-24, is there anything else happening in the San Fransisco/San Jose area the days before or after that I shouldn’t miss? It doesn’t have to be Python or even Computer related. If I shouldn’t miss it, whatever it is, tell me!

PyCon 2009: Zope 3 is dead! Long live Zope 3!

This is my subjective account of the discussions about Zope that happened under PyCon 2009. I make no claim that this represents any sort of truth except my own.
On thing that really made med excited about PyCon 2009 was the amount of Zope gurus that was going. Primarily the fact that we got several of [...]

Announcing zope.fixers

I’ve created a package, zope.fixers, that will contain the 2to3 fixers needed to port Zope and Zope Component Architecture code to Python 3. If you want the gritty details, read on.
I want the Component Architecture to be available under Python 3, so I have tried porting it. To do that I needed setuptools, which is [...]

PyCon 2009: It was awesome

I love to say “I told you so”. I know it makes me an unbearable besserwisser, but I’ll just have to live with that. And what did I say about PyCon 2009? That’s right.

And it was. The general blog comments so far is that it was the best PyCon ever. I’ve learned how to [...]

PyCon video: Python 2.6 and 3.0 compatibility

This year, the PyCon video team has really done a fantastic job. The videos show both the speaker and the slides, and all videos will be up by Friday!
My talk was about Python 2.6 and 3.0 compatibility. Seeing it again it actually wasn’t as sucky as I thought it was. Notice how the video editors [...]