Re: [Rest2web-develop] Added an 'ip_addr' IPv4 address value test...

[Nicola L. <ni...@te...>]

>> I take this as a "go ahead" with the "test" -> "check" renaming. :-)

> I thought I'd agreed. Anyway - no problem, we've completely broken
> backwards compatibility anyway (in lots of good ways - but anything
> using the new system is going to have to change code already).

Better safe than sorry, once bitten twice shy, and all that. ;-)


> I let Mark Andrews know that there was development work going on, but
> never heard back from him. He hasn't blogged for ages either - real life
> must be intruding, terrible stuff.

Or else a healthy, if late, disinterest in all these Internet mannerisms. ;-)


>> I'd move the imports anyway, whether we separate the functions or not.

> Cool - I'll leave you to do it next edit. I've done a couple of new
> articles for my website (done my Romania blog and part II of my life
> story as articles) - so I'm returning to editing ConfigObj.

Let me know when you're able to let me play with it, too. :-)


> Nice one for the restructuring by the way.

Must... fight... entropy...


>> For my use case, the IP address value is necessary, I wouldn't want to move
>> it to some extra module. So let's keep everything local, at least until
>> there's other stuff to be included that would make the module too unwieldy.

> Ok - do you think it's worth implementing a generic 'regex' test (that
> leaves values as strings), with a standard dict of (any ?) regexes.

Maybe it would, but first I'd like to understand why you ripped'em off
already. ;-)


> Right.. hmm.. trying to fight my way through buzz words. I have a lot of
> respect for Ian Bicking and the WSGI crew. I also like the idea of being
> 'back end independent'.

Modularity is always a good idea, but it's hard, for anyone heavily bent on
multithreading, to earn much respect with me, to put it bluntly.


> I am also reasonably convinced that twisted is the way forward for any
> decent web application - so if they're not compatible... then so be it.

Of the two main strong points of Twisted, I think that the support of many
net protocols is the *least* important one. The concurrency model makes it
a strong base for *any* mid-to-big sized project, that is not enough served
by multiprocessing.


> I'm interested in Nevow... *but* I like the ultra simplicity of
> 'embedded_code'. I don't yet understand what Nevow has to offer that is
> more than templating. In fact most templating languages seem to me just
> another new language (albeit simpler) to avoid embedding python - when
> embedding python code is much more powerful (and I like Python).

You want Quixote's PTLs, man. You *really* want them. :-) What are they?
Text generation through real Python, that's what. BTW, I share your dislike
of embedded mini-languages for templating.

Nevow is much more than templating. The other two main points are form
processing and trasparent page update through Javascript (a superset of the
currently popular Ajax).

-- 
Nicola Larosa - ni...@te...

When I was growing up, my parents used to say to me, "Tom, finish your
dinner - people in China are starving." But after sailing to the edges
of the flat world for a year, I am now telling my own daughters, "Girls,
finish your homework - people in China and India are starving for your
jobs." -- Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, April 2005