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Jonas Galvez : /log
by greut
Django's templating system is often a pain to work with, and XML libraries for Python are also not stellar, so I decided to take advantage of Python's with statement and wrote a XML generation library somewhat similar to Ruby's Builder.
great example of the "with" usage
June 2008
ibarona - USPP(Universal Serial Port Python Library)
by Emaux
USPP Library is a multi-platform Python module to access serial ports. At the moment, it only works in Windows, Linux and MacOS but as it is written entirely in Python (doesn't wrap any C/C library) I hope you can extend it to support any other platforms.
Simple DirectMedia Layer
by Emaux
& 6 others
Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. It is used by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many popular games, including the award winning Linux port of "Civilization: Call To Power."
SDL supports Linux, Windows, Windows CE, BeOS, MacOS, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, Solaris, IRIX, and QNX. The code contains support for AmigaOS, Dreamcast, Atari, AIX, OSF/Tru64, RISC OS, SymbianOS, and OS/2, but these are not officially supported.
SDL is written in C, but works with C natively, and has bindings to several other languages, including Ada, C#, D, Eiffel, Erlang, Euphoria, Guile, Haskell, Java, Lisp, Lua, ML, Objective C, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Pike, Pliant, Python, Ruby, Smalltalk, and Tcl.
SDL is distributed under GNU LGPL version 2. This license allows you to use SDL freely in commercial programs as long as you link with the dynamic library.
phk.tekwire.net - Home
by damdec
PHK is a PHP-oriented package/archive system. Basically, it can be considered as a PHP-oriented equivalent of the Java jar format. As jar, PHK allows to distribute and run a library or an application as a single file. It also provides a lot of higher-level features such as an autoloader, integrated unit tests, meta-packages, CRC checks, digital signatures...
Design Stencils - Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
by kasi77
& 4 others
(via)
Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version 1.0 is available for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Adobe Photoshop (PNG), and covers the following topics:
* Ad Units
* Calendars
* Carousels
* Charts and Tables
* UI Controls
* Form Elements
* Grids
* Menus and Buttons
* Mobile - General
* Mobile - iPhone
* Navigation and Pagination
* OS Elements
* Placeholder Text
* Screen Resolutions
* Tabs
* Windows and Containers
PlotKit - Javascript Chart Plotting | liquidx
by ogrisel
& 16 others
PlotKit is a Chart and Graph Plotting Library for Javascript. It has support for HTML Canvas and also SVG via Adobe SVG Viewer and native browser support.
pyPdf
by Emaux
& 5 others
A Pure-Python library built as a PDF toolkit. It is capable of:
extracting document information (title, author, ...),
splitting documents page by page,
merging documents page by page,
cropping pages,
merging multiple pages into a single page,
encrypting and decrypting PDF files.
By being Pure-Python, it should run on any Python platform without any dependencies on external libraries. It can also work entirely on StringIO objects rather than file streams, allowing for PDF manipulation in memory. It is therefore a useful tool for websites that manage or manipulate PDFs.
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May 2008
Main Page - AlsaProject
by Emaux
& 2 others
The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) provides audio and MIDI functionality to the Linux operating system. ALSA has the following significant features:
Efficient support for all types of audio interfaces, from consumer sound cards to professional multichannel audio interfaces.
Fully modularized sound drivers.
SMP and thread-safe design.
User space library (alsa-lib) to simplify application programming and provide higher level functionality.
Support for the older Open Sound System (OSS) API, providing binary compatibility for most OSS programs.
Python-by-example
by Emaux
& 1 other
This guide aims to show examples of use of all Python Library Reference functions, methods and classes. At this point, only the more widely used modules were added and only functions use examples are given. Python version 2.5 was used for examples unless noted otherwise. Example of output of a function is shown in the form of function_call(args) # result, when result is the actual output, it is shown after the comment sign, if it's a description of an outcome, e.g. a raised exception, it will be shown in square brackets
April 2008
Georges Bataille Electronic Library
by rike_
Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was by profession a librarian at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. In his off hours, however, he was also a fringe Surrealist, vanguard intellectual, and writer of a wide-ranging body of work that includes philosophy, economics, poetry, and pornography. In all of these writings, Bataille was concerned to articulate a "science of the heterogeneous," a philosophy of everything repudiated by civil society: shit, blood, sacrifice, deviance, violence. The wellsprings of this philosophy apparently lay in personal experience — in particular his childhood with a suicidal mother and a blind, syphilitic father — and yet his ideas resonated deeply with other mid-century philosophy (for example, shit in Bataille's system was analogous to the "other" in Phenomenology and Existentialism) and helped to pave the way to contemporary "theory."
