This August has been special for all the Python lovers in India for it’s being celebrated as “Python Month” by PyCon India. Volunteers all around the country have been visiting colleges and organizing workshops to promote and spread the awesomeness of Python. There has been few workshops in West Bengal as well. I attended and helped organize two of them. One at the B.P.Poddar Institute of Management and Technology and Netaji Subhash Engineering College.
These are the guiding principles of Python, but are open to interpretation. A sense of humor is required for their proper interpretation.
Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than *right* now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!
Easter Egg: Try - import this
PyCon is here again! Last year had awesome fun at PyCon 2011 as a beginner python-tamer. This time I’m hoping to have even more fun because I’ll be able to understand more of what they are saying. :P
Flask is a microframework for Python based on Werkzeug, Jinja 2 and good intentions. And before you ask: It's BSD licensed!I came across Flask when I was going through the apps from Hasgeek. All their sites are built on Flask. So I thought of giving it a try and I'm not disappointed.
It may sometime happen that to validate a form field you need to check the value with some existing value from the database related to the User or some other entity. But sadly Django doesn’t allow accessing the Request object in the clean() or clean_<FieldName>() methods. Here is a way around it -
A friend of mine owns an AWS(Amazon Web Services) account and wants to run an EC2(Elastic Compute Cloud) instance for his domain. But the problem is, he is not much technically sound to handle the Ubuntu server himself. A solution like cPanel is much better for him because then he can just click and have stuffs done, without writing a single line of command. But sadly, cPanel aint free. So is there any free alternative? I searched a bit and found that Webmin and its derivative Virtualmin matches the criterion perfectly.