jodal/pykka. An actor library for Python, based on threads and optionally on GEvent. Looks quite good and could be quite practical for communicating processes if the actor model fits. Perhaps one could also use something like this as a basis to run my Linda Tuplespace in a distributed manner.
Archive 18. May 2012
Jython 2.7 alpha1 released!. Wow, it took a long time, but now at least the three major alternative Python runtimes are all at 2.7 (IronPython, PyPy and now Jython). I hope that Jython 2.7 has gained significantly in performance, because otherwise it is far behind in comparison - my last tests were rather depressing (2-3 times slower than CPython).
cocoa-python - Port of Objective-C runtime to Python using ctypes. It's actually all in the link text. Interesting because the author uses it to write a port of Pyglet that does not require PyOBJC and would therefore be completely python-only source code.
R17 - flexible, scalable, relational data mining language. Looks quite interesting, basically something like a cross between AWK and SQL. The result isn't really pretty, but it seems practical - especially because you can easily use multiple processors, or even multiple machines (implicit parallelization), and thus also quite easily evaluate large amounts of data with ad-hoc queries. Because there is a simple format for passing data to further steps, it can also be easily adapted to new data sources without first running a lengthy export step there.
Recently on the Internet (Black and White Edition)
I have uploaded new pictures on Google+ and/or Flickr. Here they are - unsorted and uncommented. This is the black and white edition.
Recently on the Internet
I have uploaded new pictures on Google+ and/or Flickr. Here they are - unsorted and uncommented.