Sometimes it's helpful to wrap some code in a given context. Either the code requires some resource from the context, or the context adds some aspect to the code.

Python provides with statement to create a context for the followed block of code.

with context_manager:
    # this block runs within the …

Goal: Mount an encrypted partition on a secondary disk to /home.

I needed more space for user files on my Linux desktop running on an SSD, so I wanted to use a second rotating disk to store user files. I also wanted to encrypt this disk.

Python function decorators (PEP 318) make it easy to modify behavior of functions (or add new functionality), without changing them. We won't introduce them here as they're documented extensively.

We're demonstrating a specific case, where we have a class and we want to to use one of the methods of …

Sometimes a test should be skipped for a good reason (some resource is not available for a while and mocking is not an option, or tests are assumed to be impacting each other, etc.).

Most test runners support a way to mark a test to be skipped in a proper …

Doctrine is a useful library when working on a heavy DB dependent application in PHP/HackLang. It provides migrations as a tool to ease the process of applying changes to the database.

Each migration version is a class (often extends an abstract migration class provided by Doctrine), which specifies the …

Problem: Different applications might require different versions of the same libraries, which version of those libraries should be installed?

Problem: There are tools installed with the operation system written in Python, they require specific versions of some libraries, and the ones provided by the operating system packages are to satisfy …

Programming is a creative and challenging process, and this makes it interesting. There is so much to learn and there is so much to do. But this is common to get lost in this ocean and forget what was the original destination. Software programs exist to solve problems and empower …

We had a great time at Mini PyCon MY this March. Here are the slides from my talk about concurrency in Python.

Graphite is an open source project to collect and graph data that changes over time. It contains three components: a network server to receive the data, a special data storage format, and a web interface to show graphs. Graphite is developed in Python programming language and is designed to be …

This guide sets up a solution using statsd to collect detailed statistics from a system. For an introduction to the concept, please read "measurement with statsd". The process is to send data from within the application to statsd server. Statsd server sends data to Graphite for storage and visualization.

It …