Author Archives: Sylvain Hellegouarch

Recently I released ws4py, a package that provides client and server WebSocket support for Python 2.6 and 2.7. Let’s first have a quick overview of what ws4py offers for now: WebSocket specification draft-10 of the current specification. A threaded client. … Continue reading →

I recently received the Python Testing Cookbook authored by Greg L. Turnquist and was happy to read about recipes on acceptance testing using Robot Framework. We’ve been using this tool at work for a few weeks now with great results. … Continue reading →

Recently at work I’ve had the requirement to host a Django application in a CherryPy server. I first looked for various projects I knew were doing just that. Unfortunately, after trying them I was rather disapointed. Their approach is to … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I was at a talk titled: “OpenData, basis for a new political technologies ?” at la Cantine Numérique Rennaise [fr], a place about the digital age located in Rennes. During the debate, I asked how we could assess the … Continue reading →

I’ve been part of a very interesting discussion on a French forum around some technical aspects of the opening of public data. To provide a bit of context, the French city of Rennes, Brittany, has been leading the way in … Continue reading →

Just a quick note about the first draft of support for WebSocket in CherryPy. You can find the code here. Note that this is still work in progress but does work against Chrome and the pywebsocket echo client. It supports … Continue reading →

CherryPy runs on Android thanks to the SL4A project. So if you feel like running Python and your own web server on your Android device, well you can just do so. You’ve probably not heard something that awesome since the … Continue reading →

Quite often, people come on the CherryPy IRC channel asking about the way to use SQLAlchemy with CherryPy. There are a couple of good recipes on the tools wiki but I find them a little complex to begin with. Not … Continue reading →

HBase, the well known non-relational distributed database, comes with a console program to perform various operations on a HBase cluster. I’ve personally found this tool to be a bit limited and I’ve toyed around the idea of writing my own. … Continue reading →

In my previous article I described how to plug WebSockets into AMQP using Tornado and pika. As a follow-up, I’ll show you how this can be used to write the simplest chat client. First we create a web handler for … Continue reading →