Wednesday, January 07, 2015

Custom Python Decorators Considered Harmful

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In line with the classic post about GOTO being harmful, I must extend this to include the 'Decorators' language feature of Python. ...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

Pylint Broken on install: "control_pragmas = {'disable', 'enable'}"

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So, wanting better Python code and having used pychecker for years and years, I was recently pointed to pylint again as a tool-of-choice. ...
Sunday, November 30, 2014

Python Coding Best Practice Guide - Practical Goodness (prevent over-smart show-offs from killing your project)

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Over the last 8? 9? years of coding in Python, I've had to deal with code written by a variety of people: Some of these people were ve...
Thursday, September 04, 2014

SOLVED: MongoDB - Pymongo ConnectionFailure: function takes at most 4 arguments (5 given)

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I was getting this odd message, leading to pymongo fail the Connection() and MongoClient() instantiation.  No connection?  Really?  Getting ...
Tuesday, September 02, 2014

SOLVED: Skype crashes on startup on Ubuntu 14.04

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Just had a problem with Skype crashing immediately upon startup on my Ubuntu 14.04 box (as of Sept. 2, 2014).  This was an unexpected, sudde...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

SOLVED: diff 2 files, get results without markup

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So, I want do a logrotate and remove files that are old, keeping only the latest 3 files.  So, script starts with: $ fullLoglist="/tm...
Tuesday, August 26, 2014

SOLVED: Multiprocess updates of shared dict-of-dicts

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Earlier, I posted the following: I've run into my very first bug in Python.  It's a known, existing bug, but it's still the f...