Since I moved here I have had to relearn how to speak. This is largely because english takes on a new set of rules once you cross state borders and people feverishly defend their manner of pronunciation. I don’t mean the accent - everyone knows car=cah, park=paaaaak and stuff like that, I mean the names of places. God help you if you call Peabody “pea body”. Here is a short prononciation guide for the next time you’re in town.
Peabody: pee-buddy, a friend you urinate with Reading: red-ing, If ING changed their color to red the logo would be a red ING Medford: med-fud, I have no idea Watertown: water-town, wtf? why isn’t it wudder-ton Barnstable, barn-stubble, if you made a barn from ents this would be what you get if he didn’t shave for a few days.
Of course there are a million more but I’ll leave that as an exercise for the reader. Now get back to work.
I saw pycallgraph on freshmeat today so spent a couple minutes playing with it. Initial impression is good and I’m looking forward to stretching its legs out soon. I through together a quick python script to see what pycallgraph is all about. Like most things in python is incredibily easy to use - with a couple lines of code you can add this into existing projects as well as new ones.
Here is the source for my test app:
#!/usr/bin/python
import pycallgraph
def aplusb(a,b):
if a == 7:
a = seven()
return a b
def aminusb(a,b):
return a - b
def printTest(input):
print 'Input is ' input
def seven():
return 7
#################
pycallgraph.start_trace()
print 'starting script'
list = []
list.append( aplusb(7,4) )
print '7 - 4 = ' str( aminusb(seven(),4) )
printTest('this is a print test string')
print list
pycallgraph.make_dot_graph('test.png')
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