I’ve written before about Plumbum, first about it’s basic capabilities and then about it’s ability to do things remotely over a network. To paraphrase the great Bill Cosby, "I told you those stories to tell you this one". In addition to all...
So if you read my previous article, you’ve hopefully found that Plumbum is a fantastic tool for running and managing shell tools from Python. But stay tuned, dear readers, because we’ve only scratched the surface of the fantastic facilities that plumbum...
I do a lot of Python work, and I’m a huge fan of virtualenv, which allows you to set up a completely isolated Python environment. This is hugely helpful to keep various dependencies from multiple projects from clobbering one another. It’s so helpful, that...
With apologies to Mr. Poe: I was fuming in frustration, sitting clicking at my station, I’ll spare you some narration, but I was getting pretty sore. ‘Surely there must be some method, whereby changes are detected, And perhaps then be injected into my...
Bash scripting is hard, let’s go plumbing Consider the following scenario: Let’s say you’re working on a software project. Maybe it’s a web service, maybe a GUI app, whatever. Doesn’t matter. As usual, you discover there’s some...
