Most of you probably already know how to do branches with svn and subversion, but I haven't been able to get off my butt to make it second nature until now.I found myself needing to make a rather large set of changes (adding a python scripting daemon, 8+ weeks of work) to my working copy [...]
I have written quite a bit about removing the GIL from our system, and I see a lot of comments that say "Why don't you just use multiprocessing." and "didn't you know that python is not safe for real-time work?" I wanted to write a blog post to address those very questions so that I [...]
I posted some example code on my wiki that shows how to create a child process on a posix system, and communicate with it using stdin/stdout. Read it here: http://trac2.assembla.com/pkaudio/wiki/ChildProcessStdinStdoutSome notable snippets:static int child_pid = -1;static int child_status = 0;static int child_crashed = 0;int child_exited(int wait=0){ int status = 0; // printf("PARENT: waitpid %in", child_pid); [...]
Find the full script and wiki entry here: http://trac2.assembla.com/pkaudio/wiki/qmake_build_step.pyTrying to integrate qmake into Visual Studio or Xcode can be a real pain in the ass. Instead, it's really not that hard to write a python script to update your moc, ui, and rcc files, since all qmake does is generate makefiles that do a simple [...]
Well written, well said:http://artificialcode.blogspot.com/2010/04/professionalism-in-python-or-how-to-not.html"My take on that is if you are employed as a professional Python software developer, then not writing tests is lazy, unprofessional, and unacceptable…period.""Robert mentioned that Ward Cunnigham's idea of "clean code", was that it was obvious what a function did. This isn't as easy as it sounds. In fact, this is [...]