Pelican’s performance in rendering large blogs can be accelerated by transforming articles to HTML in parallel. For Markdown and restructured text (reST) I provide numbers and sample code here.

To explore the timings we need rather extensive samples of texts. On github we find a repository of German law ...

When you visit your site after you have logged in to PySite, you will find a new toolbar at the top of the page. You now can edit particular areas of the page right here:

Move the mouse over the page and yellow frames indicate which areas are edible, err ...

The latest version of PySite now contains a comfortable console script for user management and site management.

Also the rendered documentation is online.

Working with the new stable version of Python 3.3, I stumbled upon the new exception hierarchy. Specifically, I was working on some file-related routines and found in the release notes, that for this domain a new set of exceptions is introduced and that IOError is now OSError.

Things are ...

The PySite project needs a decent UI to manage the pages and to up-/download files. The current milestone of PySite envisions that UI to use the metaphor of a file manager, for which elFinder seems a good implementation. Its current version is 2.0RC1, but ...