Python Secret Weblog for 2005 April

(11) Wed Apr 06 2005 20:35 What Zope can learn from Ruby on Rails:

Ian Bicking just posted an insightful analysis of what makes Ruby on Rails work. What struck me most was the following:

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(6) Fri Apr 08 2005 20:56 lxml released at last:

I've finally found the time to release lxml. So here then is lxml, release 0.5!

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(5) Sat Apr 09 2005 21:51 lxml 0.5.1 released:

I've just released version 0.5.1 of lxml, the Pythonic binding to the libxml2 and libxslt libraries. This because I got feedback to 0.5 which pointed to a critical bug in the way unicode was handled. This kind of feedback is why I should've released lxml long ago!

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(2) Fri Apr 15 2005 20:38 Clarity, ClearSilver integration for Zope 3:

I've just checked in a new package into the Zope 3 base subversion repository called Clarity. What it does is integrate ClearSilver templating into Zope 3 (trunk, though I expect Zope X3.0 or even Five support should be easy enough). It's all still rough, but initial tests show ClearSilver templates can be quite a bit faster than ZPT, and they have other possible benefits. In my simplistic experiments I got transaction rates about 2 to 5 times higher than you can reach with ZPT, testing this with the 'siege' utility.

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(3) Sat Apr 16 2005 00:27 the Clarity Template Language:

The ClearSilver templating language does not have a very pleasant syntax for people familiar with the TAL notation of Zope Page Templates. That's not to say ClearSilver's syntax is awful; it's deliberately simple, and I'm sure one could get used to it pretty quickly. Still, I started wondering what ClearSilver syntax would look like if it were more like TAL. Let's call such a theoretical TAL-like ClearSilver "Clarity". Perhaps this is a bit confusing, as it's the same name as the ClearSilver integration package I talked about before, but it's a nice name. :)

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Thu Apr 28 2005 16:02 Five 1.0 released!:

Yesterday I've released the one dot oh version of Five, the Zope 2 product that allows you to use Zope 3 technology in Zope 2, today.

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(5) Thu Apr 28 2005 16:29 iCalendar 0.10 released!:

The last couple of months I've been heavily involved in a cool Zope + Five based project involving calendaring, about which more will be announced shortly. As part of this project I've had the opportunity to improve Five. The project also needed support for the iCalendar RFC, and this lead to me to become the janitor of the awesome Python iCalendar library.

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