Archives June 24, 2004
Should check all these scripts into local CVS (Noticable amount of effort could be lost)
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Being a python programmer, I tend to write Python scripts to solve little problems that arise, for instance:
- Download my Sourceforge projects' CVS repositories into a directory for backup every week
- process CVS logfiles to help with generating changelogs
- add my python-coding sub-vocabulary to Dragon Naturally Speaking
- backup mozilla profile and secondary mail directories as ...
Premature optimisation kills (Well, introduces errors...)
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I think I've just discovered an anti-pattern in my code. Unfortunately, it's a really common idiom in the code base. Basically, I've been using dictionaries initialised with all records in a tracking table to make looking up a particular record very fast.
If you're going to be looking up individual records many times, and are ...
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Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.