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Python in Maya Done RightPymel makes python scripting with Maya work the way it should. Maya's command module is a direct translation of mel commands into python commands. The result is a very awkward and unpythonic syntax which does not take advantage of python's strengths -- particulary, a flexible, object-oriented design. Pymel builds on the cmds module by organizing many of its commands into a class hierarchy, and by customizing them to operate in a more succinct and intuitive way. Powerful new classes

Pyspread is a spreadsheet that accepts a pure python expression in each cell. Requires Python 2.4, Numpy 1.0.4, and wxPython 2.8.7.1.

Python library for arbitrary-precision floating-point arithmetic

Neat script I wrote for a friend to annotate a Python script with the types observed during a run of the program

I love python for its beautiful code and practicality. But it’s not going to win a pure speed race with most languages. Most people think of speed and ease-of-use as polar opposites - probably because they remember the pain of writing C. Cython tries to eliminate that duality and lets you have python syntax with C data types and functions - the best of both worlds. Keeping in mind that I’m by no means an expert at this, here are my notes based on my first real experiment with Cython:

Use a staticmethod when you know which class you want to access as you are writing the code.

Use a classmethod if you have a class hierarchy and want the method to operate on the actual class used in the call rather than the class where it was defined:

Easily create Google charts using python syntax and datasets. Python wrapper for the Google Chart API. The wrapper can render the URL of the Google chart, based on your parameters, or it can render an HTML img tag to insert into webpages on the fly. Made for dynamic python websites (Django,Zope,CGI,etc.) that need on the fly chart generation without any extra modules. The wrapper SHOULD also work with Eastwood the Google Chart API workalike. G = GChart('p3', [5,10])

I wrote dbtxt because I needed a small, flat database in a python environment that didn't depend upon any external libraries. Most libraries are contaminated with the GPL, and this needed to be OK for commercial distribution without any complications. So that's what we have here - a complete (though small) database system that depends on nothing at all other than the Python language and its internal libraries. The entire database comes in at about 20k bytes (that's right, "k", not hundreds of k or megabytes) and I was able to implement all the functions I needed. So I was happy. Will you be happy? Well, download it and read the docs and see what you think. The download, zipped, is about 13k. Yep. 13k. :-) By all means, if you have a need for the same kind of thing, feel free to make any use of dbtxt you please. I have released it as PD, so you can use it in projects that are commercial, GPL, BSD, PD, private, government... whatever you like. Below you'll find a basic description taken from beginning of the docs; in the archive you'll download there is complete documentation, two sample databases, a test program and the database engine itself.

Charming Python: SimPy simplifies complex models

One of my recent research tasks required me to retrieve various information from del.icio.us, a well-known social bookmarking service. My programming language of choice is Python, and so I wrote a basic Python module for getting the data I needed.