Friday, June 28, 2013

Python assertRaises exception inside generator

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So I have a generator and I want to make sure it throws an exception after a certain number of calls. So expected behaviour is this: def ...
Thursday, June 27, 2013

Continuously loop (cycle) through a list in python

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Thank you itertools: In [7]: a=[1,2,3] In [8]: licycle = itertools.cycle(a) In [9]: licycle.next() Out[9]: 1 In [10]: licycle.next() Out...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Disable Java web applet in Internet Explorer

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Microsoft has joined the good fight to make disabling the vulnerability-ridden Java web plugin easier. They have released a fixit that blo...
Sunday, June 2, 2013

SQL join syntax

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Jeff Atwood posted a useful memory aid for SQL join syntax , although as many commenters point out there are a number of caveats to using se...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Puppet: service checking on OS X without using the inbuilt service stanza

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Normal service enforcement is easy with puppet, it looks like this for an OS X launchdaemon: class something::myservice { File { owner ...
Friday, May 17, 2013

pdb and gdb conditional breakpoints

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Use a debugger enough and you'll eventually be in a loop looking for a certain condition. And it's too tedious to walk through all ...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

python set a variable conditional on another variable

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Tiny python snippet. If you're doing this: if value: output = value else: output = 'somethingelse' Do this instead: outp...