[Twisted-web] twisted & nevow recipes for the Python Cookbook's 2nd edition?

Jason Mobarak jason.mobarak at gmail.com
Wed Jul 7 14:33:17 MDT 2004


Hello --

There's a Nevow wiki with example and recipies.

http://divmod.org/users/wiki.twistd/nevow/moin.cgi/FrontPage

...however Nevow is a pretty fast moving target as far as Python
libraries go, some of the example on the Nevow wiki are already bit
rotting.

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 09:58:10 +0200, Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi there, fellow twisters!  I'm in the recipe-selection phase for a
> second edition of O'Reilly's "Python Cookbook" and I have noticed that
> almost no recipe has been submitted to ActiveState's online cookbook
> that shows how to use Twisted (and Nevow).  With Twisted having matured
> into (IMHO) the premier Python networking package since the CB's 1st
> edition, and Nevow coming on strong, I'd really like to have a few such
> recipes in book's 2nd edition... if anybody's interested they're
> welcome to submit recipes to the online cookbook and/or, if they
> prefer, mail me directly (sorry, I'm not currently subscribing to this
> mailing list -- indeed I've currently shut off all mailing lists since
> preparing the cookbook's 2nd edition is a very time-consuming task).
> As you know if you've seen the 1st edition, my bias is strongly in
> favour of "short and sweet" recipes -- in particular, those recipes
> that rely on 3rd party packages, as twisted and nevow ones would be,
> play more of a role of "raising interest" in the 3rd party package than
> of "covering" its use in any depth.  The compensation for authors of
> recipes that are selected for publication is essentially "symbolic" --
> a free copy of the printed book when it comes out and the listing among
> the book's contributors; all royalties that would normally go to
> contributors go to the non-profit Python Software Foundation instead
> (the PSF uses all of its funds to promote Python in many ways).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alex
> 
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-- 
Jason



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