Archive 4. July 2010

Dropbox API - and this could become quite an important toy for me in the near future - an API for Dropbox. Of course, most of the time I just need to send files back and forth, so simply using Dropbox is sufficient. But for some things, an API to access the metadata on Dropbox would indeed be interesting (one of my projects that has been on the back burner for a while would be an implementation of the Simpletext.ws service from Google App Engine on a normal Python service with Dropbox as the backend, for example).

Python 2.7 Release - some good stuff in it, especially the set and dictionary comprehensions I like - so far I have made do with generator comprehensions, but the dict comprehensions just look better and more readable. Due to various dependencies, I am probably still tied to Python2 at work for some time to come, so it's nice that some of the Python3 features are also becoming available in Python2. However, I am one of those who really want Python3 - just for the much cleaner string handling with Unicode as default. But as long as Django does not run on Python3, I am reluctantly stuck with Python2.