Re: Some plugins and stuff

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 00:27, Jesse Lawrence wrote:
> Hello all,
> I've been busy coding some different Pyblosxom
> goodies.  I wanted to show them to everyone before I
> put them in the registry.

Heh, cool

> acronym.py is a plugin which replaces acronyms with
> <acronym title="definition">acronym</acronym>.  It
> reads the defined acronyms and their definitions from
> a file in your datadir.
> http://mdev.sourceforge.net/jesse/pyblosxom/acronym.py

Nice, I've always wanted to do this but too lazy to implement. Anyway,
this should be done as a postformat plugin instead of a preformat one.
Then every preformatter plugin can benefit from it, IMO. You can see a
few examples of a postformat plugin in the contrib.

> m3u.py is an entryparser which renders m3u playlists
> as an html list.  Very handy when you want to display
> a list of songs.
> http://mdev.sourceforge.net/jesse/pyblosxom/m3u.py

Simple and effective I guess.

> atom.tar.gz is a plugin (atom.py) and collection of
> atom flavour files for producing Atom 0.3 feeds.  I'd
> like very much to make this plugin as good as
> possible, anyone who has suggestions, feel free to
> contribute.
> http://mdev.sourceforge.net/jesse/pyblosxom/atom.tar.gz
> 
> entrybsddb.py is a caching mechanism.  I'm not sure of
> it's worth, and it's probably slower than entrypickle
> or entryshelve.  I just wanted to see what I could
> come up with.
> http://mdev.sourceforge.net/jesse/pyblosxom/entrybsddb.py

>From your source:
    # So if it's not atom, we're going to return None.
    # Is there a better way of doing this?
    if not form.has_key('flav') and not path_info.endswith('.atom'):
        return None

if not(form.get('flav') is 'atom' or path_info.endswith('.atom')): 
	return None # Warning, logic not tested, as usual

Clear, concise, and most importantly, in english :), actually, this is
demorgan's law if I'm not wrong, that is: 
_   _     _____
A x B === A + B

> I'd like peoples input and thoughts on these plugins. 
> Please feel free to tell me if they suck, or if and
> how they can be made better.

Don't think they sucked :P




-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials.
Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills.  Sign up for IBM's
Free Linux Tutorials.  Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin.
Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click