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Note: There is a better way to do this described here.
If you’ve ever tried apt-get or brew to try to install gtest, you are
probably familiar with the fact that gtest is not “recommend” for global install
on your system. As an alternative, the recommendation is that you make it part
of your project. The process for making gtest part of your project, however, is
not well documented, at least for modern git projects. What follows is the
procedure I used to do so.
Slots seem to be poorly documented. What they do is simple, but whether they are used is tricky. This is a little mini-post on slots.
[Read More]This is a quick tutorial over the basics of what metaclasses do.
Metaclasses, while seemingly a complex topic, really just do something very simple. They control what happens when you have code that turns into a class object. The normal place they are executed is right after the class statement. Let’s see that in action by using print as our metaclass.
[Read More]I haven’t seen a great deal of practical documentation about using classmethods as factories in Python (which is arguably the most important use of a classmethod, IMO). This post hopes to fill in that gap.
[Read More]I recently decided to try my hand at making an auto-load extension for Python and Plumbum. I was planning to suggest it as a new feature, then I thought it might be an experimental feature, and now it’s just a blog post. But it was an interesting idea and didn’t seem to be well documented process on the web. So, here it is.
The plan was to make commands like this:
[Read More]Wouldn’t it be nice if we had uncertainty with a nice notation in IPython? The current method would be to use raw Python,
from uncertainties import ufloat
print(ufloat(12.34, 0.01))
12.340+/-0.010
Let’s use the infix library to make the notation easier. We’ll define |pm| to
mean +/-.
I’ve been working on a color addition to Plumbum for a little while, and I’d
like to share the basics of using it with you now. This library was originally
built around a special str subclass, but now is built on the new Styles
representation and is far more powerful than the first implementation. It safely
does nothing if you do not have a color-compatible systems (posix + tty
currently), but can be forced if need be. It is included with Plumbum, so you
don’t have to add a requirement for your scripts that is non-essential (as color
often is). It is integrated with plumbum.cli, too. Also, I’ve managed to
accelerate the color selection algorithms about 8x, allowing near game-like
speeds. (see the fullcolor.py example).
I have created a thesis class file for a UT Thesis in LaTeX. It has already been used for at least one passing thesis, so it does meet the current UT guidelines. (Please let me know if there are any issues!)
Since I use Bitbucket for all my private repositories (like my thesis itself), the code is in a Bitbucket repository rather than GitHub. Here is the link if you want to create a pull request or want to compile the class and documentation from the source .dtx file.
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