Comments on: Acire: Delivering A World Of Python Snippets

By: Scott Ferguson

Scott Ferguson — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:44:07 +0000

A web app frontend would be a pretty sweet idea…I’ll give it a look. I’m mostly a git guy so I’ll have to poke around with ways to get bzr interfaced via Python (which I doubt is at all hard).

By: Stu

Stu — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:59:57 +0000

Hey I would suggest that by default the snippet licences should be at least as permissive as the python license http://www.python.org/psf/license/ . I don’t care what the licence is for the program but I would hesitate to even look at the snippets if I was not able to use them in my own (commercial) code.

I would even suggest that you should turn down merge requests for snippets with more restrictive licensing unless there was a very good reason. Activestate http://code.activestate.com/ requires an MIT license for example.

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:45:11 +0000

I definitely see myself using this.

Thanks for the great tool (and thanks for not making it a web-exclusive app!)

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[...] Acire: Delivering A World Of Python Snippets A few weeks back I blogged about my new program Acire: a simple little tool that provides a library of Python examples called snippets that outline how to do specific taks. With each snippet you can browse the code, run it and otherwise learn how it works in order to help you get to grips with writing your own programs as quickly and easily as possible. [...]

By: Bastian Kennel

Bastian Kennel — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 10:45:25 +0000

The main argument for me to put this on the desktop is that I can launch the example code with one click and this way immediately see what the result is. Even better, I can make small adjustments in the example. Unfortunately, they currently have no result in the execution, but perhaps this can be fixed.

By: oldslag

oldslag — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 10:00:55 +0000

Cool idea, however breaks the typical look for examples use-pattern, i.e. go to websearch engine and then open the first link that looks vaguely like it could be relevant.

Examples that are in this repository will be hidden, if I understand this correctly, and you will have to remember to also consult this. This will likely not happen.

By: incon

incon — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:08:55 +0000

A linux SnippetsApp clone? http://www.snippetsapp.com/

By: Dan Fish

Dan Fish — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:22:32 +0000

This is a good resource. A few dependency issues crop up which may throw those new to python – maybe some way of checking/alerting for installed/required python bindings may be a future feature.

By: hb

hb — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:45:15 +0000

This sounds like a great idea. I just wonder if the organisation in subdirectories is the best way to go. I guess a tagging mechanism would be better suited and less limiting. But maybe you already thought of that, and that’s what the CATEGORIES metadata is for?

By: Ronan

Ronan — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:30:31 +0000

Everybody, correct me if I'm wrong, but the [SNIPPET_LICENSE] tag is here for this, isn't it? Acire may use GPL3, as long as each snippet has a defined license, we can use the snippet under its own terms.

However, giving formal licensing to python-snippets as a whole would be complicated since each individual snippet could differ.