Aug 25, 2009 1
When you’re writing python, you don’t need a lot of debate over the minutiae of most coding standards. PEP 8 does that for you. Even better, there are some tools that make it really easy to stick to the standard. Why do this? Well, for one thing it makes code reviews easier when everyone follows [...]
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Every now and then I have to run a foreground job under sudo that doesn’t want to die when I hit ^C. Then it’s a hassle to ^Z, get the pid of the sudo job, and sudo kill that pid. So I wrote a little script (or a template for scripts) that runs the sudo [...]
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The ctypes module makes loading and calling into a dynamic library incredibly easy.
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