OddThinking

In which Julian fails to persuade Python to perform a simple task: stopping.

In which Julian rubber-ducks a design for a Python Logging Handler, to overcome earlier email jams.

In which Julian proposes a hypothetical – how could the default parameters on urllib2 bring down an application 29 minutes past midnight on a Saturday morning?

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

The idea of the computer popping up each morning and saying “Well done! You just hit your highest week’s turnover ever.” or “Oh dear! You had your worst continuous run of profit-less transactions in a row!” might make my job more interesting…

Is the real problem with compilers (and web-development and unit-tests) that they force a context-switch in the middle of the development process?

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

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

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.