PyPedia: a Python IDE and method repository in a wiki

http://www.pypedia.com/index.php/Main_Page

by Kenan • 14 years ago

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prg3183• 14 years ago

Looks like the site is down -- I couldn't seem to find a cached version anywhere. Here's a discussion on reddit about PyPedia from six months ago posted by the creator of PyPedia:

- http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/qq76y/pypedia_a_pyth...

cyrus_• 14 years ago

Here is a presentation from the author: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5548517/PyPedia.pdf.

Kenan• 14 years ago

It's not from six months ago. At the time of writing this comment it's only about 8 hours.

prg3183• 14 years ago

Reading is hard -- I stand corrected

ORioN63• 14 years ago

Wow, this is pretty awesome.Is there a self-hosting version, somewhere?

andrem• 14 years ago

git clone git://github.com/kantale/pypedia.git

Says it right there on the front page.

leecGoimik73• 14 years ago

Powered by Wikimedia (PHP): this just feels wrong. Not to mentioned that Wikimedia is pretty crappy system. It's markup and templates are horrible.

qbproger• 14 years ago

What do you suggest instead that's in Python?

Also, what markup to you prefer?

vaneck• 14 years ago

I'm not the original poster, but MoinMoin is widely considered mature and featureful. I'm guessing they had a good reason not to use it; it may be worth asking them.

leecGoimik73• 14 years ago

reStructeredText has been adopted by Python community as a de-facto standard for writing docs, it's simple, clean and extensible.

prg3183• 14 years ago

I'd rather have Wikimedia in PHP that works than use a half baked solution because it's written in python. Languages are tools -- elitism not necessary here.

leecGoimik73• 14 years ago

You clearly know nothing about Wikimedia if you think it "works".

abecedarius2• 14 years ago

Here's pretty much the same idea for Scheme instead of Python, which I wrote back in 2005, temporarily up again: http://wry.me:8080

An example of what I wanted to do with it: http://wry.me:8080/page/Partial%20Evaluation (Only the early bits are working.)

Its own source as wiki pages: http://wry.me:8080/page/Underlying%20Source%20Code

Differences I noticed: in my system a page implements a module instead of a function. Code, evaluations, and commentary are mixed in a literate-programming style. Anyone can edit existing code, with a branching version control system for backup (which, er, I never hooked the UI into). It's awfully hacky. Maybe some of these ideas could influence this newer wiki, though.

(Edit: fixed links, added differences.)

abecedarius2• 14 years ago

Also http://sourceforge.net/projects/skwiki/ by Luke Gorrie, a Scheme wiki in Erlang. (It's even older.)

PyPedia: a Python IDE and method repository in a wiki

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