Projects/Memopol/Documentation

Memopol Documentation for Developpers

Python version

Actually, Memopol uses Python 2.7.

It should support 2.5, 2.6, 2.7 (since it use Django 1.4)

Dependencies

Actually, Memopol has a long list of dependencies, which makes it long and difficult/complex to install. Here is a "not finished" architecture of Memopol's dependencies :

• django: Python framework for website

• django-debug-toolbar: Debug toolbar
• django-contact-form-i18n: Translation of 'generic contact-form' ?
• django-flatblocks: Like flatpages, but for parts of a page
• django-awesome-snippets: Decorator to cache html snippets
• django-simple-captcha: Simple captcha application
• django-extensions: Extensions for django (???)
• django-tastypie: Flexible API layer (delicious)
• django-haystack: Pluggable search

• whoosh: Full-text indexing, spell-cheking library

• django-ajax-selects: jQuery-powered auto-complete fields
• django-extended-choices: Improve django choices (fields)
• django-dynamiq-search-form:
• django-categories: Handle one or more hierarchical category trees
• django-endless-pagination: Twitter and Digg style pagination
• django-compressor: Automatic system for compressing css and js files

• lxml: XML processing library

• hamlpy: HAML-like syntax for django templates
• pil: Python Imaging Library

• South: Migration of database
• matplotlib: Plotting package

• numpy: Array processing for numbers, strings, objects

• BeautifulSoup: HTML parsing library
• pyquery: jquery-like library

• lxml: XML processing library

• WebTest: Helper fot testing WSGI applications
• nose: UnitTest extension for unit testing
• gunicorn: WSGI Http server
• werkzeug: WSGI utilities module
• pytidylib: Python wrapper for HTML Tidy
• pyyaml: YAML parser
• unidecode: ASCII transliterations for unicode
• diff_match_patch: Synchronization for plain text

matplotlib

This library is used (in memopol/trends/views.py) to draw some graphs about votes.

numpy is mandatory to use this library.