Python Scripts/Modules

This page provides various Python scripts/modules that I have written over the years. Most of them were written and tested on Mac OS X, and some may be specific for OS X, but most should run on any platform where Python is installed. These were tested with Python 2.6.5.

Programmer Utilities

• enum
  This module provides an implementation of enumerated types in Python.
  (See my blog post "Enums in Python: a more flexible and powerful implementation")
• timeSpent
  This module provides facilities for instrumenting your Python code in order to find out which parts are taking the most time.
  (See my blog post "Where did the time go? (Instrumenting C++/CLI and Python code)")
• testExecfile
  The purpose of this script is to test the behaviour of the 'execfile' function with respect to the two dictionaries passed as (optional) arguments.

Misc

• coinTossPattern
  This script takes one command-line argument which should be a string of H's and T's (e.g. HHTH) representing a pattern of heads & tails. The script runs a simulation of coin tosses to determine the average number of tosses before the given pattern will occur.

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