Tag Archives: Python

Going to PyCon 2009!

Posted on February 21, 2009 by Samuel Huckins

I am going to my first PyCon this year! With programming in Python so much more both at work and messing around with various things at home, along with the additional tutorial day and great talks planned, this seemed like … Continue reading →

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Code navigation, completion and snippets in vim

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Samuel Huckins

In my last post on configuring vim as a (Python) IDE, there were two topics I forgot to cover and another I feel it necessary to amplify. The missing: viewing your code at a high level, and navigation therein; insertion … Continue reading →

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Python and vim: Make your own IDE

Posted on February 16, 2009 by Samuel Huckins

I prefer to use vim for most of my systems administration and programming related editing tasks. Aside from the usual argument that it will be present on any *nix system worth its silicon that you log in to, I choose … Continue reading →

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Elegant option checking with optparse

Posted on February 5, 2009 by Samuel Huckins

A fair amount of the Python code that I write is in the form of scripts designed for command line use. In support of sysadmin activities, data massaging, or other tasks, they often call for options to be passed and … Continue reading →

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Easy and informative: Call graphs in Python

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Samuel Huckins

While I was looking for different graphing modules in Python, I came across pycallgraph. This module allows you to create a graph of all the different calls that occur between the time you initiate it and when you tell it … Continue reading →

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