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Every once in a while I notice something that reminds me of a scene from a movie. Generally, if it's a movie that has made me think a bit or consider things in a new light (Fight Club, The Matrix, and Pulp Fiction are a few), it means there's something worth chewing on in the situation.
I'm no Matrix fanboy, but I had an experience that put me in mind of one scene. Neo asks Trinity if she can fly a helicopter. She answers, "not yet," calls up her "operator", and he transfer the appropriate skills to her virtual persona.
Today I wanted to check out something using the ctypes module, so I popped open an interpreter window and typed import ctypes. No dice--I didn't have it installed on my work machine. One quick download and install later, I uparrow+entered in the same interpreter, and had ctypes available.
But this could get better. PyPI is gaining traction--it's not CPAN yet, but it seems to be turning a corner. Thinking in terms of yum and apt-get, what would be very cool is to turn this:
>>> import blahdb
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: No module named blahdb
>>> [switch to web browser, hit Google, find the right page, find the download for my version of Python,
download, find installer, run installer, switch back to console]
>>> import blahdb
>>>
into this:
>>> import blahdb
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: No module named blahdb
>>> install(blahdb)
PyPI: found blahdb (Library for accessing Blah databases) version 1.6 for Python 2.3
PyPI: <blah_author@python.org> signature OK
PyPI: installed.
>>> import blahdb
>>>
or even this:
>>> from __future__ import magic_imports
>>> import blahdb
>>>
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