I'm working on getting my Raspberry Pi configured as a web server. It's my intention to finally start hosting my own website again after many years of using hosted services. So far I've got the right software installed, now it's just going to take some time to configure all of the settings. And then it will take a while to import everything from my ( Read more... )

And after four business days we're back in extended hours. At least I got a two-day weekend out of it. I didn't even make it into the building before I found out. I am absolutely exhausted and uninspired.

Man alive, I've been working 12-hour days, seven days a week, for almost the entirety of March. It has been grueling. During this time I gained 10 pounds due to atrocious eating habits (like eating right before bed at 3:00am), my voice has become damaged thanks to stress- and diet-related acid reflux, and I've started waking up with caffeine ( Read more... )

Although my days have been largely consumed by meetings and discussions I've been finding time to enjoy Zaltbommel and its many restaurants.

Yesterday for dinner I had duck liver, quail, candied apple, pork and mashed potatoes, crème brûlée, wine, and a delicious Trappist beer named Dubbel at a wonderful restaurant in Rossum named De Gouden Molen ( Read more... )

I don't expect that I'll liveblog my trip to Europe, but I did have a great first day and I wanted to let everyone know that I made it safely.

My coworker and I arrived in Amsterdam at 7:30am, and we quickly got the rental car and headed to our hotel to check in and get some breakfast. We headed into Zaltbommel for lunch and ate at a place that ( Read more... )

Hey everybody, I'm going to be in Zaltbommel and Waardenburg, Netherlands starting February 4th for two weeks. If anyone would like to get together with me while I'm there, please let me know! I'd be delighted to meet with you, have a drink, and talk about feedparser or Python in general (or anything else for that matter)!

UPDATE: I'm going to be ( Read more... )

While at a birthday party for a lesbian friend of mine, I was the only straight guest at the party.

Birthday girl: We're all doing jello shots!
Me: I've never done jello shots.
Birthday girl: Well you can't use your finger! You have to use your tongue to get all the jello out. It's a competition, so try to keep up.
Everyone does the jello shots
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I have lost patience with the RFC 822 date parsing in both feedparser and listparser. Back in 2009 when I started writing listparser I decided to use regular expressions to turn RFC 822 date strings into Python datetime objects. Earlier this year when I discovered that feedparser's RFC 822 parser had copied code from Python's rfc822 module I ( Read more... )

I'm pleased to announce that listparser 0.17 is available for immediate download! This release features support for Python 2.4 through 3.3, Jython 2.5.2 and 2.5.3, as well as PyPy 1.8.0. The codebase runs on all of these with no modification, and should still also run on IronPython 2.6.2 (although I'm currently not able to test this).

You can ( Read more... )

Howdy everybody!

I'm pleased to announce the release of feedparser 5.1.3! This version features a number of crash fixes, minor documentation fixes, and improved date parsing and character encoding handling, You'll also find that two HTML5 element attributes are no longer stripped by the HTML sanitizer. You can grab the latest release from PyPI or ( Read more... )