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Category Archives: Python
Review of Hacking Vim 7.2
Hacking Vim 7.2 by Kim Schulz is filled with a variety of useful explanations and helpful tips for Vim users wanting to improve their efficiency and learn more about their editor. While I’ve enjoyed finding new and better ways to … Continue reading
A better way to search for methods of Python objects
Python’s introspection abilities are quite extensive and useful. They are also well-documented, so I won’t go into the basics here. Check out this article if you need a good overview. N.B.: discussion and code below applies to both methods and … Continue reading
Catching warnings from the MySQLdb module
The MySQLdb Python module implements the Python DB API for MySQL. I’ve written about its use before. MySQL issues warning messages in a number of circumstances and PEP 249 (which specifies the Python DB API) describes a Warning error message … Continue reading
Checking options with optparse callbacks
optparse is a flexible and powerful module for processing command line options in Python programs. I’ve used it for a while, but I didn’t have much occasion to get into callbacks until recently. A callback here is a user-defined function … Continue reading
What are all the wxPython Events?
On several occasions recently I found did not know what event to specify to trigger something in my wxPython apps. I had a hard time finding anything close to a comprehensive list of all events available, so I was limited … Continue reading