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Category Archives: Snippet
The forgotten art of error checking
I was just rambling randomly yesterday, in the usual microblogging platforms, about how result checking seems to be ignored or done badly. The precise wording was: It’s really amazing how little attention error handling receives in most software development. Even … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Go, Java, Lua, Perl, Python, Ruby, Snippet, Test
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Mocker 0.10 and trivial patch-mocking of existing objects
Mocker 0.10 is out, with a number of improvements! While we’re talking about Mocker, here is another interesting use case, exploring a pretty unique feature it offers. Suppose we want to test that a method hello() on an object will … Continue reading
Posted in Project, Python, Snippet, Test
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Partial stubbing of os.path.isfile() with Mocker
One neat feature which Mocker offers is the ability to very easily implement custom behavior on specific functions or methods. Take for instance the case where you want to pretend to some code that a given file exists, but you … Continue reading
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Python’s os.environ
As Chris Armstrong pointed out yesterday, os.environ.pop() is broken in Python versions at least up to 2.5. The method will simply remove the entry from the in-memory dictionary which holds a copy of the environment: >>> import os >>> os.system(“echo … Continue reading
Posted in Python, Snippet
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Mandelbrot Set
I’ve finally posted the Mandelbrot Set code snippet that was sitting on my disk for a while. It computes and draws the Mandelbrot Set fractal using pygame, and also Python for Series 60. Three different screenshots are provided. They show … Continue reading
Posted in Fractal, Python, Snippet
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Labyrinth Solver
What about a labyrinth solver function in 16 lines of Python? :-)
Posted in Python, Snippet
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Textual watermarks with Python Imaging Library
I’ve added a new snippet about doing watermarks with PIL.
Posted in Python, Snippet
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Decorator for automatic inclusion of function definition in __doc__
Python 2.4 included support for function decorators. Decorators are callable objects that may modify a given function or class method arbitrarily when they’re prepended with specific syntax to the function/method definition. The following code implements a decorator that will automatically … Continue reading
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All combinations of N elements
Here’s a snippet to compute all combinations of N elements over K positions.
Posted in Math, Python, Snippet
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Permutations of all subsets
Another snippet to compute the permutations of all subsets.
Posted in Math, Python, Snippet
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