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Flexible Dates in Python (including BC)

By Rufus Pollock On June 18, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I’ve had occasion recently to frequently work with “dates” that come in a lot of shapes and sizes including:

Dates in distant past and future including BC/BCE dates Dates in a wild variety of formats: Jan 1890, January 1890, 1st Dec 1890, Spring 1890 etc Dates of varying precision: e.g. 1890, 1890-01 (i.e. [...]
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markdown2latex (mkdn2latex) Script for Converting Markdown to Latex: v1.2 Released

By Rufus Pollock On June 23, 2008 · 3 Comments

A new version (v1.2) of my python script for converting markdown to latex is now done. markdown2latex (renamed from mkdn2latex) has been extensively refactored to become a proper python-markdown extension. This means it can be used seemlessly alongside plain markdown conversion, as well as independently whether as a module or, in its classic form, [...]

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A Review of Plotting Libraries for Python

By Rufus Pollock On June 5, 2007 · Leave a Comment

An (ongoing) summary of my experience with some of the utilities available for plotting from a python perspective.

Last updated: 2008-03-06

Ploticus (+) Fast, powerful, mature, well-documented (-) Not python based

C-based rather than python-based but fast and powerful. There is a (fairly crude) set of python bindings available here: http://www.srcc.lsu.edu/~davids/ploticus_module.html. Alternatively one can [...]

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Dump Python Interactive Session to a File

By Rufus Pollock On April 6, 2007 · Leave a Comment

import readline readline.write_history_file(‘my_history.py’)

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Versioned Domain Models

By Rufus Pollock On March 22, 2007 · Leave a Comment

I’ve been thinking about how to have a versioned domain model similar to the way we have versioned filesystems (e.g. subversion) for over two years. Over the last few months whatever bits of free time I’ve had have gone into developing a prototype built on top of sqlobject and I’ve now got a rough and [...]

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mkdn2latex v1.1: An (improved) Python Script to Convert Markdown to LaTex

By Rufus Pollock On March 13, 2007 · Leave a Comment

I’ve updated mkdn2latex the python script which converts markdown to latex (see also the original release announcement). Changes include:

Support for markdown code blocks and html pre/code blocks generally using latex verbatim Verified compatibility with markdown 1.6 A few minor bugfixes
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Adding Mathematics to Markdown

By Rufus Pollock On January 8, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Following my release of the markdown to latex script I’ve had a few enquiries from people asking about integrating mathematics with markdown generally (e.g. for web output as well as for output to latex). I’d already been using mathematics in markdown and then processing to html before I wrote the mkdn2latex script and in [...]

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Web-Based Annotation

By Rufus Pollock On December 19, 2006 · Leave a Comment

We intend to add annotation/commentarysupport to the open shakespeare web demo either in this release or next. As a first step I’ve been looking to see what (open-source) web-based annotation systems are already out there. Below is a list of what I’ve been able to find so far (if you know of more [...]

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mkdn2latex: A Python Script to Convert Markdown to LaTex

By Rufus Pollock On November 30, 2006 · 4 Comments

UPDATE (2008-06): a new version is available (v1.2): http://www.rufuspollock.org/2008/06/23/markdown2latex-mkdn2latex-12/

Over the last year I’ve written quite a few papers using markdown plus asciimathml. While this is great for web publication (and editing) and gives me lots of styling freedom via css it doesn’t produce output that’s as nice as that produced by latex [...]

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A Pythonic API to Subversion Repositories

By Rufus Pollock On November 15, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Whenever I’ve had a few spare minutes over the last couple of months I’ve been hacking away on svnrepo, a pythonic API to local subversion repositories and it is now robust enough to warrant a 0.1 release. svnrepo is (and was intended to be) very small, just a single module, that wrapped the [...]

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