Profiling in Python has always been easy, however, analyzing the profiler’s
output not so much. After the profile has been created you can use Python’s
pstats module but it feels quite clumsy and not really empowering. For Python
2 there has been RunSnakeRun, a very convenient tool for …
Two months ago I asked for help porting python-debianbts, to Python3. Python-debianbts is a tiny little library that allows for querying Debian’s bug tracking system. Since Debian’s reportbug depends on it, the library is installed on ca 80% of the Debian installations. The main blocker back then was …
read moreDear Lazyweb,
I’m currently trying to find a way to port python-debianbts to Python3. Debian’s standard bugreport tool reportbug depends on python-debianbts and can thus not convert to Python3 if python-debianbts does not as well. Unfortunately python-debianbts depends on SoapPy for parsing the Debian bugtracker’s responses, and …
read moreHi always wondered what the most popular options are, you usually find
in .vimrc files. So I downloaded 155 .vimrc files from the net
(mostly from dotfiles.org and
github.com), and wrote a little
script which counts the
number of times an option has been set. Since most options …
Let’s consider the following scenario: I have two Python processes receiving the same events and I have to measure the delay between when process A received the event and when process B received it, as precisely as possible (i.e. less than 1ms).
Using Python 2.7 and a …
read moreOnce again, there will be another round of the Summer School “Advanced Scientific Programming in Python”. This year in St. Andrews, UK.
Quoting from the official announcement:
read moreScientists spend more and more time writing, maintaining, and debugging software. While techniques for doing this efficiently have evolved, only few scientists actually …
