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Python+Conversant: What Was I Thinking?

I started seriously hacking on python last night. As I asked on #plex: "why do we always start with the most complex project we can think of when learning a new language?"

Anyway, I started on a python library/wrapper for Conversant's xml-rpc API. I've started this project in 3 different languages now, and I never get any farther than the last time. I suspect the problem lies in my somewhat weak OO design skills – transmogrifying a procedural API to an OO one is not an easy task.

This is no reflection on Conversant, BTW. Au contraire – Conversant's API is very OO considering the functional language it's built on. It's more the flattening nature of remote procedure APIs, and my own aforementioned weaknesses.

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My name is Steve Ivy and I write about technology, the open web, social software, and general nerdity on monkinetic.com. You should follow me on Twitter or subscribe to this blog if you like what you're reading. I spend my days hacking Movable Type, python, Django, and various other efforts at Wallrazer. This is my personal site.