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XML -- while modern and clean and uniform -- isn't as convenient as LaTeX and RST.

GooDiff is a consumer-oriented service for keeping track of changes of important documents – and indirectly the services described by these documents – provided by selected Internet service providers. Our “mission” is to increase transparency for end consumers such as you and I.

The Natural Language Toolkit for Python is a great framework for simple, non-probabilistic natural language processing. Here are some example snippets (and some trouble-shooting notes).

The WordNet database contains all sorts of interesting relationships between words: it can categorize words into hierarchies, find the parts of an object, and answer many other interesting questions.

The code below relies on the NLTK and NetworkX libraries for Python.

doing distributed version control like Git and Mercurial, Fossil also supports distributed bug tracking and distributed wiki all in a single integrated package.

This is python-jabberbot, a Jabber bot framework for Python that enables you to easily write simple Jabber bots. You can use your Jabber bots to provide information about your running systems, to make your website interact with your visitors or notify you about updates or changes you monitor with your Python scripts.

nl is a python library, that exposes a declarative API that allows us to build sentences and rules. These are used as input for a knowledge base built on the CLIPS production system. CLIPS builds a Rete network with the rules and sentences, which can then be queried for the consecuences of those in a most efficient way.

The main claim of nl is to offer a syntax that can accommodate any coherent theory that we may build with the natural language (in the same sense as something like the semantic web's OWL-Full would), while at the same time being based on a simple finite domain first order theory. This theory is NL, a discussion of which can be found here. This discussion is probably required reading to understand the breadth and the limits of nl, but not to start using it.

This is a single Python Script that does the work for you: collecting the appropriate METAR file(s), comparing it to the latest report posted on Twitter, and if it changed, update the Twitter account status (and saving this latest on disk for later comparison).

Pushing METAR data on Twitter

Cherry Blossom is a blogging system written in Python. It was written specifically because I had a lot of pyblosxom blog entries on my previous blog, but I wanted to use cherrypy instead of plain-ol cgi. It adds features like object publishing, session support, access to lots of cherrypy plugins, access to GET and POST vars as method parameters, and others. This software's been running my blog (http://billmill.org) for over two years now, and has survived a couple redditings and a flood from stumbleupon, all without a hiccup.

Django WikiApp is a pluggable application for Django that aims to provide a complete Wiki (for really small values of "complete")

analyzes Python source code looking for bugs and signs of poor quality.

# FlickrTouchr - a simple python script to grab all your photos from flickr, dump into a directory - organised into folders by set - along with any favourites you have saved. You can then sync the photos to an iPod touch.

— a development environment for making digital art

Field is an open-source software project initiated by OpenEnded Group, for the creation of their digital artworks. It is an environment for writing code to rapidly and experimentally assemble and explore algorithmic systems. It is visual, it is hybrid, it is code-based. We think that it has something to offer a diverse range of programmers and artists.

Based on ideas started at the MIT Media Lab, Field was in development in-house for around 6 years. But for the last 16 months it has been quietly available online as an open source project. We are pleased to announce the initial "beta" binary open-source releases for Intel-based Macs OS X 10.5 or 10.6.

This library provides a Python Language API for visualization of air traffic situation.

Generally “fail fast” is a good engineering principle, because it’s helps you find problems sooner, and makes debugging much easier.

solrpy is a python client for solr, an enterprise search server built on top of lucene. solrpy allows you to add documents to a solr instance, and then to perform queries and gather search results from solr using your favorite programming language--python.

PyLucene is a Python extension for accessing Java Lucene. Its goal is to allow you to use Lucene's text indexing and searching capabilities from Python. It is API compatible with the latest version of Java Lucene, version 2.9.0 as of October 13th, 2009.

PyLucene is not a Lucene port but a Python wrapper around Java Lucene. PyLucene embeds a Java VM with Lucene into a Python process. The PyLucene Python extension, a Python module called lucene, is machine-generated by JCC.