Useful

Python useful utils collection. Contains the following modules.

log

Simple logger where logging module is overkill.

TODO:

1. Rename Output class to Channel.
2. Check channel verbosity.

typecheck

Checks if arguments match the function annotation.

resolver

A simple function that just resolves domain names to ip addresses.

TODO:

1. Returns only one random record.

2. Supports only A-records for now.

tmux

Trivial tmux wrapper.

cli

Command line parser.

mlockall

A mlockall/munlockall ctypes wrapper.

mystruct

A structure-like class from http://norvig.com/python-iaq.html

bench

Things like stop watch live there.

mypipe

It's an os.pipe2() that closes fds when leaving with-statement.

mstring

Magic expansion of variables in strings. Never use this code because it relies on inspect module that considered harmful.

debug

Automaticaly start debugger on unhandled exception. The code is taken from http://code.activestate.com/recipes/65287/