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The problem with unit testing programs

Wandering Thoughts | Sept. 9, 2008, 1:18 a.m. | Original

A commentator on my entry on why your main program should be import able mentioned that a third reason is to beable to unit test your program. I agree with the sentiment in general,but in specific I've never been able to get unit testing of my mainprogram code to work very well.

While I can unit test most of the low-level code involved in a program,I've found that much of the high level code, the stuff that goes in themain program, has two

有關 Chrome 的東拉西扯

JackysBlog | Sept. 9, 2008, 12:21 a.m. | Original

對不起又要說 Chrome 了。經過接近一星期的使用，又看了很多不同的意見，也想詳細談談自己的一些看法。

Chrome 的名字

首先，有很多人都不知道為甚麼 Google 要叫這個瀏覽器做 Chrome (雖然中文版本仍然叫「Google 瀏覽器」)。有些人就從直譯意思

congrats to 毓民、長毛

ericayuen | Sept. 8, 2008, 6:54 p.m. | Original

精華重溫：
長毛在港台選舉論壇金句

黃毓民踢爆毛孟靜講大話

民建聯有佢講無人講毓民拔刀相助

同場加送：

蕭若元精闢分析:點解選社民連的毓民,長毛等候選人?

安慰了我跟社民連線的經濟立場分歧的憂慮：“經濟立場的不同

try our breaast??

ericayuen | Sept. 8, 2008, 6:32 p.m. | Original

how is he going to "try our breasts"?

原來最後一句他是說 "Improve people's LIVERHOOD" ！！！是指我的肝藏健康嗎?

我地去打針針喇，唔使驚!!!

chihung | Sept. 8, 2008, 4:45 a.m. | Original

阿女永遠係最靚的

chihung | Sept. 8, 2008, 4:23 a.m. | Original

How to get as much of your program byte-compiled as possible

Wandering Thoughts | Sept. 8, 2008, 1:18 a.m. | Original

The CPython interpreter doesn't run Python code directly, but first compiles it to bytecode . Because this parsingand compiling steps are somewhat time-consuming, CPython optimizesthings by saving the compiled bytecodes into .pyc files (or .pyo files if you used the -O switch to python ), and trying to usethem when possible.This speed increase doesn't necessarily matter all that much for aprogram that runs a long time, but it does matter for typical utilityprograms, which only run for a