Posts tagged Python

If you have python but not unzip (consider, e.g. a Nokia Internet Tablet), you can extract zip files with python -m zipfile -e filename.zip .

Lars Wirzenius writes about measuring unit test coverage with coverage.py. I've been doing the same thing with trace.py from the Python standard library, and the Zope 3 test runner. The pretty HTML output is generated by z3c.coverage by a nightly buildbot run, and any regressions in test coverage are reported via email ("module foo.bar got 5 new untested lines of code"), also thanks to z3c.coverage.I wonder about the differences between coverage.

I want to be able to install small and simple Python packages from Cheeseshop by typing 'easy_install packagename'. This does not work out of the box on Ubuntu Gutsy (even after installing python-setuptools): easy_install tries to install stuff into /usr, which (a) requires root permissions and (b) is just Not Done on Linux, where /usr belongs to the distribution's package manager1. 1 /usr/local is for extra stuff. I consider it a bug in setuptools that it prefers /usr over /usr/local.

profilehooks is now a proper Python egg. Other changes since 1.0: new output formatting options (contributed by Hanno Schlichting) the decorators should not interfere with doctests any more.

Remember the package dependency graph of z3c.formdemo produced by tl.eggdeps? the insane graph, scaled down from 14153x2729 to 480x93 If you filter the dot file through tred from the graphviz suite of tools, it will remove redundant dependencies (that are already implied by transitivity) and produce something actually useful: the useful graph, scaled down from 2695 x 2394 to 480x426