Archives week 34 of 2010
Aug. 23, 2010 - Aug. 29, 2010
Catty ssh is cool
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Tuxedo.
Was looking up something for a backup operation and saw a command where someone was catting from ssh... I'd never thought of doing it before, but it does make sense:
ssh dbhost.example.com "pg_dumpall | gzip -c" > ~/cluster.sql.gzshould connect and dump the entire DB cluster (gzipped) to your local machine.
ssh dbhost.example.com "gunzip -c ...
All those little spots where you use strings...
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Snaking.
x.split( '.' )Is an idiom that shows up all over the place, particularly in list comprehensions. Run your code through 2to3 and it fails when x is a str (bytes) object, as 3.x thinks the '.' is unicode. It fails with a rather cryptic
TypeError: Type str doesn't support the buffer API error as ...
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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.