High memory usage when using Python’s tarfile module

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Alexander Dutton

The Python tarfile module is a handy way to access files within tar archives without needing to unpack them first. You can iterate over files using the following pattern: Behind the scenes, each TarFile object maintains a list of members … Continue reading →

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Using logging to debug what suds is sending across the wire

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Alexander Dutton

suds, a SOAP client for Python, makes good use of Python’s logging module, which makes it easy to work out what it’s sending across the wire. I’d previously mentioned hacking suds to use an urllib2 handler with debugging enabled. Modifying … Continue reading →

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Exchange Web Services, suds, and Python

Posted on May 14, 2011 by Alexander Dutton

This post is out of date. Please see this new post about Exchange 2010. I’d quite like to be able to interact with the University’s Exchange 2007 instance (Nexus) programmatically using suds (a Python SOAP client) and Exchange Web Services … Continue reading →

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Django, class-based views, metaclassing, and view validation

Posted on December 15, 2009 by Alexander Dutton

Mobile Oxford is a Django website which uses class-based views for greater flexibility. This article explains how this works and what it enables us to do, before explaining some basic validation based on view signatures.

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