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IDE

• Eclipse with PyDev
  • Mint 13 has version 3.7.2, current is 4.2 (1/20/2013)
  • http://pydev.org/manual_101_install.html
• Python Anywhere
  • https://www.pythonanywhere.com/

Modules

• setuptools
  • Linux Mint Software Manager has package for Python 2 and 3
• OAuth2
  • Need to install setuptools module first
  • Download and extract zip from https://github.com/simplegeo/python-oauth2

  • sudo ./setup.py install

Twitter

• Consuming Twitter’s Streaming API using Python and cURL
  • http://www.arngarden.com/2012/11/07/consuming-twitters-streaming-api-using-python-and-curl/

Tutorials

• Good python tutorial
  • http://zetcode.com/lang/python/

List properties of an object/class

• dir(a)

• a.__dict__

• help(a)

  • displays docstrings

python-oauth2

• https://github.com/simplegeo/python-oauth2

• import oauth2 as oauth
  consumer = oauth.Consumer('consumer-key-here','consumer-secret-here')
  token = oauth.Token('access-key-here','access-key-secret-here')
  client = oauth.Client(consumer, token)
  response, content = client.request('http://someservice.com/api/something/')

  • http://parand.com/say/index.php/2010/06/13/using-python-oauth2-to-access-oauth-protected-resources/
• Make a post call:

  • import urllib
    response, content = myclient.request("http://someservice.com/api/something/", \
        method="POST", body=urllib.urlencode({'name': 'value', 'another_name': 'another value'}) )

Version

• import sys
  print sys.version_info

MySQL

• From MySQL: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-python/en/index.html
• From package: python-mysqldb http://mysql-python.sourceforge.net/