Re: MapReduce, Distributed Computing, and Ruby

BG Simp wrote: > Interesting concept; a drop dead simple distributed library in Ruby. > Anything similar in Python? > http://tech.rufy.com/2006/08/mapreduce-for-ruby-ridiculously-easy.html Consider bugging this guy to release the code. http://agentmine.com/blog/2005/11/30/mapreduce-in-python http:

Re: Sql Parser

You could use PyParsing. http://pyparsing.sourceforge.net/ People don't normally parse SQL unless they are building a query engine itself. Perhaps it is something else that you want? Could you elaborate the task? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Newbie Here

Not sure what you mean Unix related stuff. Anything can be. I use Python as a general purpose language. Python is good for most things I do. Recently I used it for Web Applications (CherryPy), Search Engines (Lupy, PyLucene), Middleware (Ice), Swing GUIs (Jython), data transformations etc. -- ht

Re: newbie parsing question

Use Regular expressions http://docs.python.org/lib/module-re.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list