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Dublin
Visiting Dublin in November isn’t perhaps the best time. And indeed, one of the days there was a bit of a wash-out. It’s still a beautiful small city though. Here are the pictures :
Customs House, on the bank of the river Liffey.
Andalucia
Great weather, great food and great architecture : there is a lot to enjoy in Andalucia. Recently I went on a leisurely trip through Seville, Cordoba and Granada.
Alcazar in Seville
Bath and Bristol
The Banksy exhibition in Bristol was an opportunity to visit Bath and Bristol.
Clifton suspension bridge
Python logging output file change
I run unit tests in Python using the standard unittest module. The output should be logged to a file. For this Python has a standard logging library, which is somewhat similar to the logging library for Java. The problem is that there is no easy way to direct the logging to a new file for every test case. Here’s how I got around it. Firstly the setup method of my testcase object contains the following : def setUp(self): self.
Using map with a dictionary in Python
When you have a dictionary in Python like this : mydict={'first':1, 'second':2, 'third':3} and you want to get the values into a list with a certain order you can do this : mylist=[mydict['first'], mydict['second'], mydict['third']] However, that can get a bit verbose if there are a lot of entries. For every entry you have to repeat ‘mydict’. An elegant way of solving this is using the map function : mylist=map(mydict.get,['first', 'second', 'third'])