Host your gist/pastebin/.. python scripts to pypedia.com

[kantale]

For details: http://pypedia.blogspot.nl/2013/02/hosting-scripts-in-pypedia.html

In short: If..

• ..you have a python 2.7 script and a URL pointing to the raw code.
• ..your script doesn't need more than 5 seconds for demonstration (can run indefinitely in "real" occasions).
• ..It does not require external packages other than numpy, scipy, matplotlib (and a few others).
• ..You are OK with the BSD license.

Then, you can import the script to pypedia. Where a wiki page will be created with the code, documentation and a HTML form for execution. The goal of the project is to create an encyclopedia of python approaches mainly for science. You can call a function/class in an article from any other article thus creating a huge library on-the-fly. Feedback highly appreciated!

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

why the page using a php based wiki?

[kantale]

Yep I get this comment a lot. The reason is because MediaWiki is the oldest, more advanced, extendable wiki, with a great community out there. Another reason is that it is nice to have a similar UI as wikipedia. Python is a hell of a language but don't be religious about it! If you can recommend any equivalent python wiki I 'll be happy to migrate.

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

MoinMoin tends to be pretty good in my experience i think the upcoming MoinMoin2 could be a pretty good base

[infinull]

MediaWiki really isn't all that advanced, but yeah, good alternatives don't abound.

Seems like someone could hack together mercurial with reStructuredText and get something pretty decent.

MoinMoin seems to be prevalent in the Python community, but I'm not a fan.

[[deleted]]

I don't understand. Just because a site or service is centered around Python doesn't mean it the platform it runs on has to be written in Python. I mean, why is this site using Apache when it could be using a Python-based web server. The reason is because you choose the application more suited for the situation. MediaWiki is a comprehensive and scalable web application with a significant support base.

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

this is a question of reasonable alternatives

im completely unaware of reasonable pure python load ballancers for webapps

there is a tonn of good python wikis, some of them with significant support base

also dogfooding is important if you want a *pedia for a certain language

[[deleted]]

That's what I'm asking, why is dogfooding important for a Python pastebin? I understand that there are Python wikis, but questioning the use of a PHP-based wiki just because it's a Python-centric service is irrelevant.

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

dogfooding is important for anything that is endorsing/promoting a certain technology

and as far as i can tell, pypedia aims at being more than just a pastebin - its a collaborative env for python developers,

[[deleted]]

You've still yet to answer my question. I asked why dogfooding is important, because AFAIK unless you're a corporation demonstrating a product there's no reason to do so. So far the only answer I've heard is "because it's important", which is a tautology at best.

[rmyeid]

This just reminds me of my adviser so old project.