I'm happy to announce that the Python Software Foundation is part of a new Google Open Source program, the Highly Open Participation Contest. This contest is an effort by Google to engage pre-college students in open source programming: Google is offering prizes and awards for completing a variety of tasks …
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I am in need of some test automation tools for a GTK/GNOME GUI, and after scanning the Python Testing Tools Taxonomy and doing a bit of investigating, it looks like there are three possibilites.
dogtail and the Linux Desktop Testing Project both use accessibility libraries to drive GNOME applications …
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I spent a fairly satisfying two days setting up unit and functional tests for figleaf, my code coverage package. I implemented the tests using a technique that I gather is called vertical slicing -- I just called it "starting a new phase of a project" before ;). The idea is that you …
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Every few days, a new hysterical screed against formal education, undergrad studies, or grad studies comes across my screen. As a result I've been mulling over the hot-button issue of academic study, both undergrad and grad, for the last few months. Why are there so many loud people decrying the …
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If you use sys.settrace to set a tracing function, and that function prints to sys.stdout`, then don't ever trash ``sys.stdout, even briefly. You will raise an invisible exception and your trace function will be removed.
(I don't know precisely what is supposed to happen when a trace …
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I haven't seen Kyle Wilson's article, Software is Hard, making the rounds yet... worth reading!
--titus
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Posted by Noah Gift on 2007-10-03 at 08:15.
Great article, at least it is a comfort that some people admit it is hard and that "software is hard" is becoming more …read more
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There's been lots of discussion recently about the global interpreter lock, and how evil it is. (I personally don't think it's evil. More on that some day when I write code again, if ever.)
Then I read this article, on parrot and Threading Building Blocks, and somethign clicked. I quote …
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