A while ago I was writing a tool in python to communicate with a sensor on an Arduino. The idea was to have a class for the Arduino that would hold the connection and handle the reading and writing to the serial port. However that way I needed to have the object maintain the connection and the open COM port (this was on windows), but this meant that I could not have multiple objects. Why? Because you can only have one connection to a COM port. The solution – use a Singleton design pattern.
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Python : generating unittests on the fly
When creating python unit tests you need to create a method in a unittest class. The problem however is when you don’t know until the code is running what these tests will be. In my particular case I need to run a series of tests against a number of Solaris packages. But I won’t know what the packages will be in advance. Continue reading Python : generating unittests on the fly
Python: Searching for a string within a list – List comprehension
The simple way to search for a string in a list is just to use ‘if string in list’. eg:
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>>> list = ['a cat', 'a dog', 'a yacht'] >>> string = 'a cat' >>>if string in list: ... print 'found a cat!' ... found a cat! |