OddThinking

{To Do: Create a pithy excerpt that makes this article about foreign characters compelling to read.}

In which Julian stumbles over a serious gotcha in Python’s SMTPHandler for logging messages.

Aren’t you bored of all these articles in the blogosphere, yammering about the finer points of spatula manufacture? Here’s yet another one jumping on the bandwagon. Sigh.

Wherein Julian bitches pointlessly about unit tests because it is late at night and he is bored of running them.

I was going to go into a rant questioning what century we are in…

But then I did some research for this post.

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.

I have some learned some things this week about Blu Tack.

In which Julian offers a solution to the problem of sales-people, and a profit,

I just discovered the source of an intermittent boot problem I have noticed with my new computer. It was so bizarre, I wanted to tell someone immediately, and I know at least some of you guys will understand.