Category Archives: python

Creative Commons License Validator

Well, what good is a weekend not spent coding? In this case, I managed to hack together a very rudimentary RDF parser/validator specialized for Creative Commons licenses. You can find the web interface here and the sourcecode for the CGI here. The Python module which does most of the heavy lifting, cclicense.py, [...]

Ahhh… Now I Understand

Descriptors, like meta-classes, are a feature of Python that I didn’t really understand up until now. Raymond Hettinger has written an excellent How-To Guide for Descriptors, which clearly explains and demonstrates their use. My biggest suprise is that (unlike meta-classes) I already knew how to use Descriptors, I just didn’t have the vocabulary [...]

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States