Python Template Weblog

The folks at python-hosting have approved my free account and I’ve done some very basic set-up of Pity’s trac page and checked it all in to subversion. The site can be seen in all its minimalistic glory at http://pity.python-hosting.com/.

I’ve also done some work on the
main Pity menu, which seems like it’s in a pretty good boilerplate state—it’s not nearly done yet, but the basic page structure seems reasonably solid.

After this I’ll need to finish the sample pages, add a page on Pity, and do one more editing pass; at that point I can start announcing this project to the python web-programming community at large.

Ok, I’ve done a lot of working on my code without actually adding any features. Mostly I’ve added decent documentation in the form of Epydoc strings, reorganized the files into a coherent structure, and added a setup.py, README, etc. I also applied for a free account at python-hosting.com, which can hopefully give me the public svn and trac access that I crave.

Most importantly, though, I’ve settled on a name for the framework as a whole: Pity. From the readme:

Pity is an acronym for “Pthon Implementation Template test framework Y”,
which should be self-explanatory. I suspect that as Python matures and
more of the good project acronyms are taken, we will begin to see more
project with names similar to Pity’s.

My current obsession is with adding more geegaws to the menu HTML and rearranging the forms to be more in line with modern, relatively sane web design practices. (Really I should be finishing the sample pages page.)

I figure I’ll be ready to unveil the site in about a week or so.