So you have some Python code in a try-catch, and you want the typical Python stacktrace (aka traceback, aka backtrace) in a way you can manipulate?
Here are some ways to handle it:
import traceback
import logging
try:
stuff()
except Exception:
# Just print traceback
print "something went wrong, here is …Music files come, music files go. And after some time your iTunes library is sprinkled with cases of
The song “Monsieur Cannibale” could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?
Being annoyed by this and having no idea how "healthy …
Here is some Python powered unicode fun (command line oneliner version):
python -c 'for c in range(0x1F410, 0x1F4f0): print (r"\U%08x"%c).decode("unicode-escape"),'
result:
Here's a simple bash oneliner to determine the installation prefix (and more) of a python interpreter:
python -c 'import sys;print("\n".join("{0:16s}: {1!r}".format(x, getattr(sys, x)) for x in ["executable", "version", "prefix", "exec_prefix"]))'
(Replace "python" with the actual python executable you want to …
Update: I reworked the code below a bit and put it on github and pypi to make it pip installable
As its name suggests, the Python subprocess allows you to spawn a child/sub process and keep an eye on its standard output through a pipe for example. Very handy …
duviz.py is a simple UNIX command line utility written in Python to visualize disk space usage. See it in action here:
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I started writing it a couple of years ago (2009 according to the git commit log), but I just recently decided to make it more public. As a …
When creating a command line tool, you quickly are faced with the burden of handling command line arguments (parsing options, arguments, flags, etc). In Python, the optparse module or, its newer version, the argparse module are very nice solutions to build powerful command line interfaces, completely with automatically generated help …
If you want to profile a Python application, you can get some basic functionality with the cProfile and pstats modules, as described in the Python Profilers documentation. After some curious experimenting, I discovered that the pstats module provides a handy interactive mode. To my surprising, I didn't found any substantial …
Look at this small snippet of Python code:
x = TooMuchAlcohol()
x.value = 10
print x.value
x.value = 'foo'
print x.value
x.value = [1,2,3]
print x.value
Seems like nothing special, but look what it spits out:
20
foofoo
[1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3]
Oh my …