Tag Archives: Python

A better way to search for methods of Python objects

Posted on November 8, 2009 by Samuel Huckins

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 →

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Catching warnings from the MySQLdb module

Posted on October 25, 2009 by Samuel Huckins

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 →

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Checking options with optparse callbacks

Posted on August 16, 2009 by Samuel Huckins

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 →

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Send events to Zenoss from scripts

Posted on May 16, 2009 by Samuel Huckins

Working at Zenoss the company, our IT group uses Zenoss the application to monitor our infrastructure. Initially, we setup the needed monitoring for various resources, added thresholds and received email alerts if there were problems. That was all well and … Continue reading →

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Printing tabular data attractively in Python

Posted on April 28, 2009 by Samuel Huckins

Have you ever looked for a tool several times, not found what you wanted, then one fine day discover exactly what you were looking for by accident? I had just such an experience… Not too infrequently in command line Python … Continue reading →

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