This article could be read as an argument for why the US needs copyright reform more than Canada does. And yet numerous international trade and copyright organizations (ie. WIPO, ACTA, Canada/EU FTA, WTO, etc.) are putting the pressure on Canada as a rogue nation and piracy haven.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Packaging is a comprehensive guide to Python packages, detailing their installation, creation and distribution. It’s a handy reference for beginners and those looking for The Right Way to package.

Parsing and manipulating dates is one of the most painful parts of software development. Python-dateutil helps. Its relativedata provides units I’ve missed from datetime.timedelta. That alone is reason to use this module.

“Lucandra provides a Lucene IndexReader and IndexWriter that interfaces with Cassandra.” It requires support for distributed ordered keys in Cassandra. Lucandra does not currently support storing of normalisations, so scoring isn’t available.