links for 2008-05-31

By Marc, on May 31st, 2008%

freshmeat.net: Project details for Extended Python Debugger
More complete than pdb.py. Supports a “restart” command, disassembly, stack traces that give better information for exec statements, and stepping over “defs”. Tries to follow gdb’s commands unless there is good reason not to.
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links for 2008-05-28

By Marc, on May 28th, 2008%

Welcome to OpenC++
OpenC++ is C++ frontend library (lexer+parser+DOM/MOP) and source-to-source translator. OpenC++ enables development of C++ language tools, extensions, domain specific compiler optimizations and runtime metaobject protocols.
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links for 2008-05-24

By Marc, on May 24th, 2008%

Linuxart » Blog Archive » Super-useful inputrc
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Python ternary operator

By Marc, on May 18th, 2008%

Today’s Python discovery:

Python doesn’t have the C style ?: ternary operator (e.g.: cond ? valueIfTrue : valueIfFalse).

But as of Python 2.5 it has a ternary operator with its own syntax: value_when_true if condition else value_when_false

For example:

>>> ‘a’ if 1 == 1 else ‘b’
‘a’
>>> ‘a’ if 1 == 0 else ‘b’
‘b’

This is actually clearer and more Pythonic . . . → Read More: Python ternary operator

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Song from the Bank of America Commercial

By Marc, on May 10th, 2008%

A recent B of A commercial has a female acoustic singer/songwriter song, which sounds very similar to Shawn Colvin to me, but alas, it’s not Shawn Colvin.

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links for 2008-05-09

By Marc, on May 9th, 2008%

Macworld | First Look: VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 1
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