I decided to give py2exe a go on the pipedemo example I just put up yesterday. It turned 2kb in to 16mb. Obviously, that's not very good for small applications. Though the bulk of it was because of wxWidgets being huge.

My next game (whatever it is) will probably be done with PyGame or python-ogre, and I may consider py2exe for that.

I added a small example in Python today.
Actually, I had done it before in C long long ago.

More soon hopefully.

If you do any sort of database programming, do yourself a favor and look at SQLAlchemy.

IMO, this is probably the greatest single piece of ORM/DB software I have ever used. Possibly the greatest overall. It answers every concern I've ever had with database programming. If you don't know Python, it's worth learning just to use SA.
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I'm in the state of New Hamster until Thursday, but that won't stop me from writing about stuff.

While getting more in depth with Pylons, I realized that I'm not going to be able to use FormEncode. It's a shame cause I really would have liked it. There's a nice clean API, but for whatever reason doesn't have an easy way to customize error messages. I'm not sure if you have to create a custom validator for every element (that would be stupid), but I couldn't find a way beyond that.

I'm probably gonna have to make my own (again), but I want to try and retain some of the cleanliness of FormEncode. More info soon.

I'm getting to work with Pylons for an internal project at work.

I've missed it so. I haven't toyed with it since 0.9.4, and I was concerned by how much and how frequent it was changing.

Concerns eliminated -- have a nice day.

My only remaining qualm is that it depends on exactly 8 billion outside packages. But I can live.

More later...maybe...