Ooh, that scared me. It took me a moment to work out that yes, of course, you have an ixion account so no wonder you can see them :-)
The LJ stuff works well in Python because urllib handles all the messy details of HTTP POST requests. I'm sure bored could have been just as easily done in Perl but I seem to have been on a Python kick recently. If I'd just been writing a load of other stuff in Perl I might perfectly well have done it in Perl...
(Anyway, if you want a heart attack look at ljscan, which was what I used instead of ljpoll before I had an LJ account :-)
I wasn't criticising you're choice of language; my point was that writing it in python is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. That my brain immediately decided to translate it into Perl in order to understand it either displays an excessive bias towards Perl, or a fluency in it that vastly exceeds that which I possess in most other languages. Whichever it is; I feel this needs to be rectified ;}
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The LJ stuff works well in Python because
urllibhandles all the messy details of HTTP POST requests. I'm sureboredcould have been just as easily done in Perl but I seem to have been on a Python kick recently. If I'd just been writing a load of other stuff in Perl I might perfectly well have done it in Perl...(Anyway, if you want a heart attack look at
ljscan, which was what I used instead ofljpollbefore I had an LJ account :-)I wasn't criticising you're choice of language; my point was that writing it in python is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. That my brain immediately decided to translate it into Perl in order to understand it either displays an excessive bias towards Perl, or a fluency in it that vastly exceeds that which I possess in most other languages.
Whichever it is; I feel this needs to be rectified ;}