Python

Licence and history of Python.

• http://docs.python.org/dev/license.htm

Byte compile .py and check for errors.

$ python -m compileall $dir

Install python modules/packages.

http://wiki.python.org/moin/CheeseShopTutorial

Installing Distributions from the Python Package Index (Start Here)

Uninstall python modules.

Install again and save list of installed files:

$ python setup.py install --record files.txt
$ rm `cat files.txt`

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Uninstalling Packages

Generate documentation from Python sources.

Generate documentation from Python sources by pydoc:

$ mkdir html
$ cd html
$ pydoc -w ../

Generate documentation from Python sources by epydoc:

TODO

Generate documentation from Python sources by Sphinx:

$ sudo apt-get install python-sphinx
$ sudo apt-get install rst2pdf

Code analyzers and style checkers.

Debugging Python code.

import pprint
print(pprint.pformat('string'))
print(pprint.pformat(['1', '2']))

Trace Python execution.

http://python-ptrace.hachoir.org/trac

python-ptrace by Victor Stinner

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