Archive for the ‘Python’ Category
unitbench 0.1 released!
After writing cppbench, a C++ benchmark framework, I felt inspired to take the next step. I wanted a benchmark library that was similar to unittest in python. I started working on unitbench. I ended up with a library that allows you to start a benchmark with ‘bench’ and it will be run and timed. It [...]
In: Announcement, Python · Tagged with: benchmarks, unitbench
Crawling the Web With Lynx
Introduction There are a few reasons you’d want to use a text based browser to crawl the web. For example, it makes it easier to do natural language processing on web pages. I was doing this a year or two ago, and at the time I was unable to find a Python library that would [...]
In: Python · Tagged with: nlp, web crawling
NLTK Regular Expression Parser (RegexpParser)
The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) provides a variety of tools for dealing with natural language. One such tool is the Regular Expression Parser. If you’re familiar with regular expressions, it can be a useful tool in natural language processing. Background Information You must first be familiar with regular expressions to be able to fully utilize [...]
In: Python · Tagged with: nlp, nltk
Starting Python, Elixir, and SQLite
When I did the post about Storm, someone suggested that I look into Elixir. Since I didn’t have time to at the time, I made a note of looking into it at a later time. That time is now. :) Elixir and Storm are very similar, they’re both object relational mappers that provide an easy [...]
In: Python · Tagged with: elixir, sqlite
Spell Checking in Python
I was looking into spell checking in Python. I found spell4py, and downloaded the zip, but couldn’t get it to build on my system. If I tried a bit longer maybe, but in the end my solution worked out fine. This library was overkill for my needs too. I found this article here: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/117221/ This [...]
In: Python · Tagged with: nlp, spelling checker