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Doug Hellmann

Biography

Doug Hellmann is a Senior Software Engineer at Racemi and Technical Editor for Python Magazine. He has been programming in Python since version 1.4, and prior to Python worked mostly with C on a variety of Unix and non-Unix platforms. He has worked on projects ranging from mapping to medical news publishing, with a little banking thrown in for good measure. He is interested in usability, development processes, and dynamic languages. As a recent convert to Mac OS X, he is learning AppleScript and Objective C. Doug spends his spare time working on several open source projects; reading science fiction, history and biographies; writing the Python Module of the Week blog series; and enjoying his new patio. He lives in Athens, GA with his wife and 3 cats.

Blog

PyMOTW: warnings

June 22 2008

Manage non-error alerts through the warnings module. read more

PyMOTW: warnings

June 22 2008

Manage non-error alerts through the warnings module. read more

PyMOTW: Cookie

June 01 2008

The Cookie module defines classes for parsing and creating HTTP cookie headers.... read more

PEP-0371 - Adding the processing module to the Python standard library

May 28 2008

Jesse Noller is championing the addition of the processing module to the standard library. We're making extensive use of processing at work now, so I can say it is an extremely simple API for spawning and managing tasks in the background. Passing... read more

PyMOTW: contextlib

May 25 2008

The contextlib module contains utilities for working with context managers and the with statement.... read more

PyMOTW: traceback

May 18 2008

The traceback module contains functions for producing error messages with stack traces.... read more

PyMOTW: heapq

May 11 2008

The heapq implements a min-heap sort algorithm suitable for use with Python's lists.... read more

PyMOTW: cmd

May 04 2008

The cmd module contains a base class for creating command interpreters.... read more

PyMOTW: functools

April 27 2008

The functools module includes tools for wrapping functions and other callable objects.... read more

PyMOTW: filecmp

April 20 2008

Compare files and directories easily with the filecmp module.... read more

PyMOTW: fnmatch

April 13 2008

Handle Unix-style filename comparison with the fnmatch module.... read more

PyMOTW: operator

April 06 2008

The operator module contains functions that perform the same operations as man of the built-in operators.... read more

PyMOTW: urllib

April 01 2008

The urllib module provides a simple interface for network resource access.... read more

PyMOTW: collections

March 23 2008

The collections module includes container data types beyond the builtin types list and dict.... read more

PyMOTW: datetime

March 16 2008

The datetime module includes functions and classes for doing date parsing, formatting, and arithmetic.... read more
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