Posts tagged Python

Did some hacking on the Zope 3 test runner: Fixed test failures on Python 2.4.4. Fixed some typos in comments and strings. Make test.py not trap Ctrl+C so eagerly. Make test.py -fu run both functional and unit tests. Make test.py -s src/pkg run the tests in the pkg package. Make test.py --list-modules list the test modules that would be imported. The riskier features I've implemented in separate branches (test-fu, filter-by-dirs, list-modules).

We finished a rather major restructuring of the internals of a system last week at work. I finally got to experimentally test Martin Fowler's refactoring techniques (small steps) on a big change. It was fun and I tended to stay late at work because I wanted to finish what I was working on. I missed that feeling. Oh, and Subversion is good, but merging is a big inconvenience. During nights I worked on PySpaceWar: added sound effects, support for background music (but didn't look for freely redistributable soundtracks yet), some visual effects, some more configuration options.

My gift to everyone: customizable key controls in PySpaceWar. Our server's gift to us: From: mdadm monitoring To: root@... Subject: Fail event on /dev/md2:... Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 03:27:30 +0000 (GMT) This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm running on ... A Fail event had been detected on md device /dev/md2. Faithfully yours, etc. Nice timing.

Ed Leafe asked me to change the licence of profilehooks.py (see this post for an introduction), so that he could include it with MIT-licenced Dabo. This was a perfect opportunity to release profilehooks.py version 1.0. News: a @timecall decorator, an option to print results immediately, and the licencing change (GPL ➝ MIT).

A short tutorial of zope.formlib. Here's how you create an add form for a notional content object Fruit: # This is the mypackage.browser module from zope.formlib import form from mypackage.interfaces import IFruit from mypackage.fruit import Fruit class FruitAdd(form.AddForm): form_fields = form.Fields(IFruit) def create(self, data): # In our example Fruit class has an __init__ # that accepts all the fields as keyword arguments return Fruit(**data) Here's how you register it in ZCML