Monthly Archives: February 2011

tmux: Almost What I Want

Posted on Monday 28 February 2011 by J. D. Bartlett

I’ve spent a few hours playing around with tmux, which is a neat replacement for GNU screen. My conclusion: tmux is really neat, but it’s not quite what I want. A bit about tmux Tmux does pretty much everything that … Continue reading →

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Inline Deferreds in Twisted (Without Yield)

Posted on Monday 21 February 2011 by J. D. Bartlett

Introduction By buffer of new stuff to blog about is getting low, so today I bring you something I played with a bit last year. After being introduced to Twisted‘s inlineDeferred decorator, I decided to have some fun with that … Continue reading →

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Pseudo Terminals in Python

Posted on Monday 14 February 2011 by J. D. Bartlett

Summary In this post I’ll show you a Python script which becomes a pseudo terminal so that it can act as a man in the middle between your terminal emulator and a running process.  In my example, the Python script … Continue reading →

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Python: Context-Sensitive Formatting

Posted on Monday 7 February 2011 by J. D. Bartlett

Introduction Python’s new string formatting syntax, introduced in Python 2.6, provides many advantages over the old %-based formatting.  I’ve set out to extend this string formatting, in order to help developers avoid making silly mistakes like forgetting to quote special … Continue reading →

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