Foresight Linux

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It’s been quite from us with information about Foresight Linux 3 and what’s happening. Iv’e been collected some information to give you some insight what’s going on. Fedora respin? First of all, we are importing the whole fedora repository for Foresight Linux. That means you will be using conary as package manager instead of yum. […]

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Today I’m releasing FauxFactory 0.2.0 with a new feature, a “Lorem Ipsum” generator. I confess that I did not look around for any existing implementation in python out there and just started writing code. My idea was to create a method that would: ... [More] Return a “Lorem Ipsum” string if I passed no arguments: In [1]: from fauxfactory import FauxFactory In [2]: FauxFactory.generate_iplum() Out[2]: u'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.' Return a single paragraph with a fixed number of words if I passed a numeric words=x argument. If words was a large number, the text would ‘wrap around’ as many times as needed: In [3]: FauxFactory.generate_iplum(words=8) Out[3]: u'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit.' In [4]: FauxFactory.generate_iplum(words=80) Out[4]: u'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.' If paragraphs=x was used, then a given number of paragraphs containing the entire “Lorem Ipsum” string is returned: In [5]: FauxFactory.generate_iplum(paragraphs=1) Out[5]: u'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.' In [6]: FauxFactory.generate_iplum(paragraphs=2) Out[6]: u'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.\nLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.' Finally, if both words and paragraphs are used, then a given number of paragraphs with the specified number of words is returned, with the text ‘flowing’ and ‘wrapping around’ as needed: In [7]: FauxFactory.generate_iplum(paragraphs=1, words=7) Out[7]: u'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing.' In [8]: FauxFactory.generate_iplum(paragraphs=3, words=7) Out[8]: u'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing.\nElit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut.\nLabore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim.' The package is available on Pypi (sadly the page is not rendering correctly… suggestions welcome) and can be installed via pip install fauxfactory. If you have any constructive feedback, suggestions, or file a bug report or feature request, please use the Github page. [Less]

Short on its heels, today I’m releasing FauxFactory 0.2.1 to fix a brown paper bag bug I encountered last night before going to bed. Basically, the new “Lorem Ipsum” generator was not honoring the words parameter if you asked for a string longer ... [More] than 70 characters. I have fixed the issue as well as added a new test to make sure that the generator does the right thing. The package is available on Pypi (sadly the page is still not rendering correctly… suggestions welcome) and can be installed via pip install fauxfactory. If you have any constructive feedback, suggestions, or file a bug report or feature request, please use the Github page. Image: Cry by LLewleyn Williams a.k.a. SCUD, some rights reserved. [Less]