Blog of Rob Galanakis (@robgalanakis)

Archive for August, 2012

always lowercase py files, always

In my line of work I deal with junior programmers constantly. One of the most common non-code mistakes I see them make is using capital letters in their python file names. I’m not sure why it happens so often, to such a diverse crowd, but I guess it comes...

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Including test files in coverage reports

We’ve finally gotten our test coverage reports published to an accessible place and I’ve been wondering whether including test files as part of the coverage report is generally preferable to excluding them. Initially I thought they should be excluded- after all, it’s your ‘real’ code people are generally worried...

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