This methode wil install a simple webserver in The same directory where you apply the python command. The command will read automaticly the index.html page . if there is no index.html will list the contents of the directory

Now that I am done with the implementation of RHE Cluster with GFS2, I now need to setup monitoring. As you all know, monitoring is a vital part of any environment. Even though we have a cluster of nodes setup, we still need to be aware of what is happening. I created two new commands. The first command is to emulate clustat, but through python and SNMP.

Google has launched a new native development toolkit for Android that will make it possible for third-party Android application developers to use C and C++. Google has also released an Android scripting environment that supports Python and Lua.

"Which languages make programmers the happiest? It’s clear that some languages are more popular than others, and many of us debate long and hard over the relative merits of Python vs Ruby, C vs Java or Lisp vs everything else. But what’s the general consensus? ..."

"Here is a post of the history of some functional features in Python. It is not exhaustive, but it is interesting to hear the author’s take on things." -- via Wisdom and Wonder

So what does python have to offer? It is a nice mix of procedural programming, object oriented and functional. That is what I love about it. It allows you to work in a mix of all three. It also seems that it is made by a bunch of people that understand that while flexibility is important (Perl code) you have to be able to READ and UNDERSTAND something written by another human being.

Python programming is all the rage, because the language has such simple, clean syntax, is easy to learn and has lots of libraries available. But best of all, you're not limited to writing command-line applications. Python has at least four ways to make graphical apps, but today I'll concentrate on one: TkInter.

This article introduces pyttpd - a Python webserver. The article is mainly about the basic ideas behind pyttpd, being based on the principle of privilege separation. So far the project is in its early planning phase and there is no code to show, but the article might be still interesting to read.