Python
Python was the first grown-up language I learned, and it remains my first love. Python is hugely powerful, elegant, well-documents, and easy to use.
Articles on Python
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DNS Zone File Fun with Python and Emacs
Sometimes we’re faced with a boring, manual, labourious job which really needs to be done, will take a fairly long time, and be pretty unpleasant. Whenever I’m faced with something like this, especially if it involves text, I try to make it interesting by setting myself the challenge of writing a script and/or using my editor to do the job faster than had I done it manually.
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Getting a recent Python on Red Hat or CentOS
Red Hat and CentOS are ubiquitous, ultra-reliable, and stable. However that safe, predictability comes at a cost - particularly if you’re a Python programmer. Python 2.4, the standard distributed Python in Red Hat and CentOS is getting a bit long in the tooth. It was released in 2004, and was followed by 2.5 in 2006, and 2.6 in 2008. Python 3.1 is the current version (backwards-incompatible), and was released this summer. However, Red Hat uses Python exstensively as its system scripting langauge, so any upgrades of Python need to be handled carefully.