kindall

Seattle, WA

engyrus.com

Age: 44

I'm a technical writer at Tecplot, Inc., makers of fine data visualization software for aerospace/CFD, oil and gas exploration, and general scientific/engineering uses. Python is my Swiss Army Knife of choice. I use it to help build and validate our documentation and help, among other things. I also have some proficiency with HTML, XML, AppleScript, C#, C, and if anyone ever has a question about 6502 assembly language, I'm your man. :-)

I have recently started doing Python-related blogging at http://www.engyrus.com/.

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comment Python module best practises
Of course, but users of the module would know it's an implementation detail, not part of the module's interface.
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answered Python module best practises
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revised Beautiful Soup Object Omitting Information
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revised Python PIL set blurring amount when blurring
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answered How can I concatenate ' in a string using python
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comment local variable referenced before assignment error
Er, that was pretty dumb of me; never mind.
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comment local variable referenced before assignment error
And what is with the break statements that aren't in a loop?
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revised Beautiful Soup Object Omitting Information
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answered Beautiful Soup Object Omitting Information
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comment python-mode.el not allowing indentation after if statement
I don't have emacs, but have you tried putting a space after if as is typical? The parens are also redundant, although I doubt that would break anything.
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answered How to locally redefine __truediv__ to return Fraction
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comment Python or VB script to run a batch file in background even the user logged out in windows
Why not? You can easily create (if necessary) and run the task from a script using the schtasks command. Create it disabled, then run it on demand...
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revised How to launch Windows Scheduler by command-line?
typos and spelling
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answered Python or VB script to run a batch file in background even the user logged out in windows
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comment Getting the first string after a symbol in a line of text python
or use partition()
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revised Python debug: How to step into another python scripts?
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answered Python debug: How to step into another python scripts?
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revised How do I catch an error raised in a decorator?
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comment While loop not working as expected
Because input() evaluates what the user enters as a Python expression, which is almost never what you want.
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