GSOC 2012 : I'm selected

As GSOC was a great experience last year, I decided to apply for GSOC-2012. I got the confirmation two days ago, so I'll work on Pylint this year. It's a great chance to make improvements on a well-used python tool.

What is planned?

Three main tasks are planned ...

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Feeds problem

I apologize about feeds problem, I'm currently working on it. The problems are:

  • Each time I publish an article, all feeds item comeback as unread.
  • Some feeds links was broken.

If you have seen these problems, I'm sorry; leave a comment in order to ease the bug resolution.

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End of internship

A quick post to tell you that I just finished my internship at Dailymotion (begined last september). These last six months has been fantastic. Dailymotion is really a great company to work for. I could describe it like a big startup, about thirty IT positions, a young team and a ...

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Custom setattr and descriptors, be careful

If you use both descriptors and custom setattr in python, you may encounter a strange behaviour: your descriptors set method will not be called anymore.

Consider this example:

class MyCustomDescriptor(object):
    def __set__(self, instance, value):
        print "Set called"

class MyCustomSetAttribute(object):

    args = {}
    descriptor = MyCustomDescriptor()

    def __setattr__(self, attr_name, value ...
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Unittest template

Recently, I have to test the same function with only few differences. For example, I have to test something like that:

def support_http_method(method):
    if method in ('POST', 'GET'):
        return True
    else:
        return False

This kind of function are easy to test, you give them an input and you check ...

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GSOC: It's all over

Finally, it's over. It was an amazing experience with amazing people, I just couldn't list everything I've learned. The beginning and end were quite complicated, but the remaining time was well spent, believe me.

As usual, PYTI is not fully working right now (but I do not ...

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Pyconfr 2011

Un rapide post pour faire une résumé depuis le dernier article (qui date du 7 août quand même).

Pyconfr 2011

Le plus récent d'abord, je poste actuellement de la cantine rennaise où se déroule pendant ce week-end l'édition 2011 de pyconfr. Au programme, plein de conférences intéressantes, des ...

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