Python Tutorials

• By David WalshDecember 31, 2012

  Get Class Methods with Python

  As a newbie to the excellent world of Python development, I'm not always familiar with the methods provided by imported classes.  Oftentimes these classes are well-documented but in the case that methods aren't documented, I found the dir function useful for getting a list of methods: The...

• By David WalshSeptember 18, 2012

  Python Decorator for Preventing Robot Indexing

  Much of my time at Mozilla has been spent catching up to the rest of the MDN team with respect to python.  The new MDN backend, codenamed Kuma, is entirely Django-based and has been a joy to learn.  My latest python adventures have been focused on...

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• By David WalshFebruary 25, 2010

  Fixing Python’s “Python Eggs” Error

  Let me first state this for the record: I am not a server guy. The closest I've ever gotten to compiling my own versions of code is "sudo port install ..." So when I decided to teach myself Python (creating simply database interaction...