Python modules you should know: psutil

April 24, 2012 at 10:25 AM | categories: Python, PyMYSK, Howto | View Comments
Next in our series of Python modules you should know is psutil. https://code.google.com/p/psutil/ psutil is a module providing an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a...

Python modules you should know: Passlib

April 23, 2012 at 07:50 AM | categories: Python, PyMYSK, Howto | View Comments
Working with passwords is central to programming multi user applications, next in my on going series Python modules you should know is Passlib, a package that makes it easy for you to work with various password hashing schemes in Python....

Python modules you should know: Scrapy

April 22, 2012 at 10:50 AM | categories: Python, PyMYSK, Howto | View Comments
Next in our series of Python modules you should know is Scrapy. Do you want to be the next Google ? Well read on. http://scrapy.org/ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Scrapy Scrapy is a fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling...

Python modules you should know: Netifaces

April 21, 2012 at 08:35 AM | categories: Python, PyMYSK, Howto | View Comments
We all know of the great python packages, Django, Sqlalchemy, Pylons etc, however there are so many unsung heroes that we get to use when we need to get something we don't do often done. This series will try and...

Generating Cryptography Keys in Python

March 27, 2012 at 09:18 AM | categories: Python, SSL, Howto | View Comments
PyOpenSSL may seem like the obvious option when working with cryptography keys in Python but i have found it to have some short coming such as the inability to save both the public and private key in a key pair....

Links of the Day

March 26, 2012 at 06:48 PM | categories: Python, Links | View Comments
I have been working on lots of LDAP integration using Python / Perl of recent, here are some links i found useful. Python ldap applications: binding to an ldap directory Python ldap applications: ldap opearations Python ldap applications:...

From Dokuwiki to Blogofile

March 21, 2012 at 08:33 AM | categories: Python, Markdown | View Comments
As you have noticed this site has a new look and feel, I decided to go back to basics, using simple text markup with no backend systems to manage and maintain. Given my new found love for Python am...