Day 2

Contents:

• Idiomatic Python revisited
  • sets
  • any and all
  • Exceptions and exception hierarchies
  • Function Decorators
  • try/finally
  • Function arguments, and wrapping functions
• Measuring and Increasing Performance
  • Which profiler should you use?
  • Measuring code snippets with timeit
• Speeding Up Python
  • psyco
  • pyrex
• Tools to Help You Work
  • IPython
  • screen and VNC
  • Trac
• pyparsing
  • Basic pyparsing
  • Building a BLAST output parser
• Online Resources for Python