Python Secret Weblog for 2005 August

(4) Tue Aug 02 2005 17:38 Changing the Python default encoding considered harmful:

Ian Bicking complains about unicode in Python and wants to change the default encoding in his Python application, and wonders why Python makes it so hard to change it.

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(1) Fri Aug 05 2005 11:33 the why of lxml:

Today I read an article about libxslt on O'Reilly's xml.com. It demonstrates the power of libxslt; it's a cool library. It also demonstrates why I wrote lxml: writing Python code that correctly uses libxml2/libxslt's bindings directly is difficult.

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(2) Sat Aug 06 2005 22:11 What is Pythonic?:

What the heck does "pythonic" mean?

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(10) Wed Aug 31 2005 19:26 XML, context and nuance:

Originally this was buried in a comment to an article on Uche's weblog, but he suggested I post it on my own weblog, here goes. The history of this long running discussion is here.

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