I created a quick & dirty admin page for a flask-based website I'm working on, and I had to add HTTP authentication support for it. Doing this is easy.

In the app, I add:

import auth

# ...

@app.route('/admin/', methods=['GET'])
@auth.requires_auth
def admin_page():
    # ... code to fetch info from ...

A python-based project I'm working on has a win32 user that I need to support. Until yesterday I've been moving to a win32 laptop in order to run python setup.py bdist_wininst so I can produce a self-installing executable. Then I discovered how trivial it is to use ...

When you're writing python, you don't need a lot of debate over the minutiæ of most coding standards. PEP 8 does that for you. Even better, there are some tools that make it really easy to stick to the standard.

Why do this? Well, for one thing it ...

The ctypes module makes loading and calling into a dynamic library incredibly easy:

>>> from ctypes import CDLL
>>> libc = CDLL('libc.so.6')
>>> print libc.strlen('abcde')
5

As with everything else in python, it gets even better when you scratch the surface. In the example above, CDLL returns an object ...

I didn't like the existing enum recipes, so I cooked up what I feel is a better way of working with enumerations in python. The result is yapyenum, hosted on github. Rather than come up with something new to say about it, I'll just repost the README here ...