Lacking Rhoticity

In my last post I showed how to get a readable execution trace of a process using a simple ptrace()-based tracer (itrace) and binutils'...

gdb can be really useful for debugging when it prints the information you want, but sometimes it will fail to give a useful backtrace, and i...

Back in January I wrote that I was porting glibc to Native Client . I have made some good progress since then. The port is at the stage...

Time for me to follow up my previous blog post and explain the code snippets. Snippet 1 funcs = [] for x in (1, 2, 3): funcs.append...

What do the six following chunks of code do, and what would you like them to do? Which do you prefer? funcs = [] for x in (1, 2, 3): ...

I tried out OpenStreetMap the other day after reading the recent article about it on LWN . Amazingly it looks pretty complete for the part...

This is the third post in a series about automated testing in Python (earlier posts: 1 , 2 ). This post is about testing using golden files....