OddThinking

Wherein Julian finds he can re-use hobby code to solve a real-life problem.

Should you use Australia Post or a courier for reliable delivery of valuable documents?

I want an option to scale back logging into log-files over time.

Doctest is a interesting and clever testing harness built right in to Python. Try not to use it.

Do we really need to operate?

In which Julian tries to choose a data-structure with a low constant time, in a low constant time.

The first obligation when faced with coding standards and style guidelines is to argue about, moan about and mock the appalling choices made by the so-called developers who came up with a style that is guaranteed to turn your code into an unreadable, unmaintainable mush.

For the modern Windows Python programmer, stuck with old libraries:

PyXML 0.8.4 for Python 2.6, Windows Installer (1,006 KB)

I have often considered writing a Battleship-playing AI, but I never have.

Now, I discover, there is a Battleship-playing AI competition, which I don’t have the time (or .NET experience) to enter.

Laserbox, from Dust United, is another casual logic game that I have been playing.