Chris Quenelle is a tools developer at Oracle Corp. He's worked on performance and debugging tools at Sun and Oracle for over 15 years. He reads comic books and science fiction,and has more tivos than he can keep track of.

 

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The everpresent “util”module.

Every major library or application I write seems to have a module named “util”these days.  I think it represents a kind of “impedance mismatch”between the platform I’m using (C runtime,C++ runtime,python standard libraries) and the platform I *wish* I were using.

Recently,I’ve been writing python code that runs lots of [...]