Dropbox is actually just a python application, so it is shipping the bytecode of its modules which one could theoretically use in other applications. Also building a more lightweight dropbox-client, that does not come with its own interpreter, might be a goal. Apparently though, dropbox does not want this and makes it slightly harder to get to the bytecode. So here is a project I’ve been working on quite some time ago, which converts the encrypted python modules of dropbox to real python-2. Read More...
In my efforts towards world domination, I discovered that the key technology to master is biology. In a recent seminar I had to dive quite deep into protein design trying to figure how it works and what the fundamental concepts of this bioinformatic technique are.
So here are:
the 5-page paper introducing protein design (1mb) and the accompanying slides which I hope provide some insight into this fantastic technique and its promises. Read More...
With ElementSoup there is already a tool, that allows you to create an etree Document using the more fault-tolerant BeautifulSoup-parser. However, looking for the oposite direction (i.e. creating a BeautifulSoup document using the lxml-parser was not yet possible). In my experience, I discover BeautifulSoup’s API much more intuitive and useful, especially for quick scraping and data manipulation tasks. So the only reason to use lxml in the first place, is that its parser is much quicker and consumes less memory. Read More...