Archive for category python
Introducing pyttpd
Posted by stephan in Technology, foss, free software, pyttpd on March 31, 2009
In this article I would like to inform you about my newest pet-project: pyttpd.
pyttpd is my effort of implementing a webserver in Python, with a focus on security (through privilege separation), extensibility and scalability.
I started this project because I was not entirely happy with the lack of flexibility and support for privilege separation by popular webservers. Whilst both lighttpd and Apache httpd provide means of running processes under different users these usually require hacks like suexec. Additionally I am somehow curious about how a fully-fledged webserver implemented in Python would perform compared to the mentioned daemons.
python-argvalidate has hit Debian unstable
Posted by stephan in Debian, argvalidate on March 29, 2009
I am proud to announce that python-argvalidate has hit Debian unstable yesterday.
This does not only mean that you can install argvalidate on Debian-based systems more easily now, but also that python-argvalidate has met the strict criteria of the Debian Free Software Guidelines, and as such has been confirmed to be Free Software.
Also, I wanted to let you know that I am maintaining the Debian package itself, which means that updates to python-argvalidate itself will be included in Debian as fast as possible, usually within two days.
python-argvalidate 0.9.0 released
Posted by stephan in argvalidate, foss, free software, python on March 24, 2009
Even though I planned providing a release candidate first, which can be seen in the project’s Mercurial changelog I have released python-argvalidate 0.9.0 today. Tarballs can be obtained from the Python Package Index (pypi), as usual.
