mod_python vs. FastCGI
I’m developing webapplications running under mod_python for a long time. I’m not very satisfied with the mod_python performance particularly the first load time so I’m looking for something like an...
View ArticlePython’s built-in id() and class methods
I found a feature of the built-in function id() that is a little bit unexpected (Python 2.5). class A(object): def f(self): pass def g(self): pass print A.f, id(A.f), A.f.im_func print A.g,...
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Function in a function, scope, decorators
When I started using decorators I was confused how it works. I was using decorators like @staticmethod and @classmethod and I didn’t care how it is done. It works. But what about custom decorators? I...
View ArticleMemoization
I presume that you know what the memoization is. And if not then you can read about it on wikipedia. I’d like to write about problems that I ran into while implementing memoization in Python. I will...
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Transition to FastCGI
Apache’s prefork MPM is a very heavy memory eater. Thirty instances together with PostgreSQL can consume more then 1.5GB of memory. I have already managed the PostgreSQL to become modest. Now the...
View ArticlePython setup.py to DEB package
From time to time I hit an interesting Python package which is not available in a DEB package. Setup.py/distutils/setuptools are de facto standard but the base binary distribution command set includes...
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