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sys includes low-level functions for controlling and debugging thread behavior.

Doug Hellmann 2009-11-15T08:57:26-08:10 http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/11/pymotw-sys-part-6-low-level-th.html http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/11/pymotw-sys-part-5-tracing-your.html

There are two ways to inject code to watch your Python program run: tracing and profiling. They are similar, but intended for different purposes and so have different constraints. The easiest, but least efficient, way to monitor your program is through a trace hook, which can be used for writing a debugger, code coverage monitoring, or many other purposes.

Doug Hellmann 2009-11-08T11:00:33-08:11 http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/11/pymotw-sys-part-5-tracing-your.html http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/11/announcing-oreilly-answers.html

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sys includes features for trapping and working with exceptions.

Doug Hellmann 2009-11-01T14:31:32-08:13 http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/11/pymotw-sys-part-4-exception-ha.html http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/10/pymotw-sys-part-3-memory-manag.html

Python's sys module includes several functions for understanding and controlling memory usage.

Doug Hellmann 2009-10-25T12:56:59-08:14 http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/10/pymotw-sys-part-3-memory-manag.html http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/10/pymotw-sys-part-2-runtime-envi.html

sys provides low-level APIs for interacting with the system outside of your application, by accepting command line arguments, accessing user input, and passing messages and status values to the user.

Doug Hellmann 2009-10-18T18:26:41-08:15 http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/10/pymotw-sys-part-2-runtime-envi.html http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/10/pymotw-sys-part-1-interpreter.html

sys contains attributes and functions for accessing compile-time or runtime configuration settings for the interpreter.

Doug Hellmann 2009-10-12T10:28:07-08:16 http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/10/pymotw-sys-part-1-interpreter.html http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596158088/

Python in Your Pocket

Mark Lutz 2009-10-08T23:50:27-08:17 PRINT or PDF http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596158088/ http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/10/four-short-links-6-october-200.html

Bird-watching Turns To Technology (BBC) -- BBC News reports on technical advances in bird watching used by a group of researchers to monitor a population of guillemots on Skomer Island, employing a CCTV like system adapted for use in the wild. This and more in today's Four Short Links.

Nat Torkington 2009-10-06T16:56:23-08:18 http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/10/four-short-links-6-october-200.html http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/10/four-short-links-5-october-200.html

Brown Cloud Marketing -- advertorial "interviewing" GM of a company offering "DNS in the cloud". This might be a worthwhile service, but the way he markets it (by saying open source is "freeware" and the market leader is "legacy") reveals a rich vein of bozo. Freeware legacy DNS is the internet's dirty little secret (actually, it's the reason we...

Nat Torkington 2009-10-05T04:02:12-08:19 http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/10/four-short-links-5-october-200.html http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/09/four-short-links-25-september.html

Diesel: A Case Study In That Thing I Just Said -- a new asynchronous I/O library in Python, which earned this fabulous review from Glyph Lefkowitz who wrote the granddaddy of all asynch libraries in Python, Twisted. Again, I don't want to dump on Diesel here; for what it is, i.e. an experiment in how to idiomatically structure asynchronous...

Nat Torkington 2009-09-25T06:00:33-08:20 http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/09/four-short-links-25-september.html http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596158064/

Powerful Object-Oriented Programming

Mark Lutz 2009-09-24T23:49:56-08:21 PRINT or PDF http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596158064/ http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/09/pymotw-resource---system-resou.html

The functions in Python's resource module help you probe the current resources consumed by a process, and place limits on them to control how much load your program places on a system.

Doug Hellmann 2009-09-20T09:57:46-08:22 http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/09/pymotw-resource---system-resou.html http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/09/pymotw-fractions---rational-nu.html

Python's Fraction class implements numerical operations for rational numbers.

Doug Hellmann 2009-09-05T08:55:47-08:23 http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/09/pymotw-fractions---rational-nu.html http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/08/pymotw-decimal---fixed-and-flo.html

The decimal module implements fixed and floating point arithmetic using the model familiar to most people, rather than the floating point representation implemented by most computer hardware.

Doug Hellmann 2009-08-30T11:02:52-08:24 http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/08/pymotw-decimal---fixed-and-flo.html