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Tag Archives: tools
Python: Context-Sensitive Formatting
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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Tagged conversion, formatting, free, programming, python, strings, tools
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Vim and Breakindent
My contention: Programmers should never have to insert line breaks into long lines of code. Why: The position of line breaks in long lines of code does not contain any semantic information. Where coding standards limit line length, it is … Continue reading
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Tagged breakindent, coding standards, compiling, editors, indentation, patching, programming, python, tools, vim
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Import Graphs for Python
I was doing some Trosnoth refactoring recently, and I wanted a tool that would draw import graphs of the Trosnoth subpackages. After a quick search of the Internet didn’t give me what I wanted, I set about to write my … Continue reading
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Tagged graphs, imports, programming, python, refactoring, tools, trosnoth
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Using Mercurial instead of Drop Box
Recently I’ve had a number of friends telling me how fantastic Drop Box is for synchronising files and how they don’t understand that I don’t use it. Drop Box has one very good argument in its favour: you can use … Continue reading
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