The myriad recommendations and requirements of the Python Style Guide can be bewildering and difficult to remember for the uninitiated. Pylint is a Python application that analyses your code and suggests where you could make it more readable and more inline with the Python style guide. Pylint takes much of the hard work out of… Read More »
With Python distributions such as Enthought and Anaconda, its never been easier to create and install python packages. In this post I show you how to build your own python packages and publish them on the PyPI python package index. Step 1. Create PyPI Account Before we can upload our package to the Python Package… Read More »
Python is a flexible and easy to use programming language, and there are all kinds of python learning resources out there. Here’s a few of the sites and resources that I’ve found particularly useful over the years. A Byte of Python A Byte Of Python was the guide that first got me into python, and… Read More »
How you organise your computational projects is important. If you’re not careful you can find yourself with hundreds of computer-hours worth of data, without being exactly sure which parameters or scripts you used to generate it. One way to keep track of your scripts and your data is with a JOBID number, which you attach… Read More »
If you need to free up some space you can use this script to find and compress files in linux. In my case I had some simulation files that were not currently needed, but I didn’t want to get rid of them completely. A Simple Bash Script This simple script just looks through the whole… Read More »