Development tools and practices for Pythonistas

[Jason Earl]

On Sun, May 01 2011, Dietmar Schwertberger wrote:

> Am 01.05.2011 02:47, schrieb Shawn Milochik:
>> Look at the big two sites for open-source repositories -- github and
>> bitbucket. One's git, the other Mercurial. I don't think you can go
>> wrong picking either one.
>
> Can any of those be used from Python as a library, i.e. something like
> import Hg
> r = Hg.open(path)
>
> When I had a look at Mercurial, which is implemented in Python, it was
> implemented in a way that I could not do that. It was implemented as
> rather monolithic program which could be used from os.system(...)
> only.
> 
> With a good API, I could easily have integrated it into my development
> flow. I have a codebase which is shared between different projects and
> there are many small changes on many different PCs.  In theory a
> distributed VCS is good at supporting that, but in practice I went
> back to my lightweight synchronization scripts and file storage
> again. With the API, I could have best of both worlds.

You should take a look at Bazaar.  I found it fairly easy to use bzrlib
from my own Python scripts.

http://people.canonical.com/~mwh/bzrlibapi/

Jason