The New Newspaper Editor: Your Neighbors and Some Python Code - O'Reilly
By Timothy M. O'Brien
[December 09, 2008]

Since the Tribune Company is about to file for bankruptcy, I thought I'd take some time to introduce you to your new Newspaper Editor. The replacement is an algorithm and a crowd of people, or is it? Are collaborative filters adequate replacements for human editorial decision-making? Is collaborative filtering making us more or less informed? Do we need to start thinking about transparency for collaborative filters? Just how do these algorithms work?

PyMOTW: readline - O'Reilly Broadcast
By Doug Hellmann
[November 30, 2008]

Python's readline module provides an interface to the GNU readline library for interacting with the user at a command prompt.

Are Computer Languages Irrelevant? - O'Reilly Broadcast
By Kurt Cagle
[November 24, 2008]

I spend a significant amount of my working day staring at a web window pane within a browser. That browser may be written in C++ but is increasingly likely to be written in JavaScript or Python of even Java, not necessarily because these languages are any faster, but because these languages are generally easier to work with.

Spring Python and Amara - O'Reilly Broadcast
By Uche Ogbuji
[November 12, 2008]

Spring Python is an offshoot of the Java-based Spring Framework and Spring Security for Python. Version 0.8.0 is out and, and it builds on my favorite FLOSS project, Amara.

PyMOTW: array - O'Reilly Broadcast
By Doug Hellmann
[November 09, 2008]

The array module defines an efficient sequence data structure that works like a standard Python list.

PyMOTW: struct - O'Reilly Broadcast
By Doug Hellmann
[November 02, 2008]

The struct module includes functions for converting between strings of bytes and native Python data types such as numbers and strings. Here's how to use it.

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