Emptyhammock

The card I gave myself today says “Read Python language docs until I have written down 10 new things.” Why? Somebody pointed out that var = val or '-' was cleaner than the mess I used instead, and I realized that much more effort is required. (Were it Perl, I’d probably …

Sometimes the python command in the virtualenv isn’t quite enough.

Contents of script run_with_env.sh:

#!/bin/sh

envdir=$1
shift

curdir=$1
shift

. $envdir/bin/activate && cd $curdir && exec "$@"

This runs a specified command (plus arguments) in a particular directory within a particular virtualenv.

Example use:

$ crontab -l
...
30 …

I forgot all about the skip_files in app.yaml and asked my favorite search engine what to do. A number of the top pages returned made it unnecessarily complicated. Just do this to skip directories (.idea and tools in this example):

...
skip_files:
- ^(.*/)?#.*#$
- ^(.*/)?.*~$
- ^(.*/)?.*\.py[co]$
- ^(.*/)?.*/RCS/.*$
- ^(.*/)?\..*$
- ^\.idea$
- ^tools$
...

(These are top-level …