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Running Tornado on dotCloud

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Taro

To brush up my web development skills, I decided to try Tornado. I also wanted to find a hosting service of some sort for my projects, which must be cheap and developer friendly. There, dotCloud seemed very nice and I … Continue reading →

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Repeating Failed Linux Command on Bash

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Taro

I was in need of backing up a lot of data in a hurry.  I used rsync between the file server and a locally mounted USB drive, but for some reason the command kept failing.  It had something to do … Continue reading →

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Using Linux Shell Command within Python

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Taro

If you just want to do some simple task, this would do:

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SciPy Weave Bug in Debian Squeeze

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Taro

I was trying to remove a bottleneck by converting a portion of Python code into C++ via scipy.weave.inline, and encountered a bug. Here is my code: And this is what I get: running build_ext running build_src build_src building extension “sc_1eb4d019edb4774720031f15557074a811″ … Continue reading →

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Comparing the Efficiencies of Gaussian Convolution Routines

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Taro

These days I quite often need to convolve (i.e., smooth) 2D images by some Gaussian. There are quite a few routines that can do this with varying efficiencies. So I compared a couple of them. On my laptop, this script … Continue reading →

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Suppressing Warnings in PyFITS

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Taro

PyFITS is obviously a great Python package if you ever need to deal with data in astronomy. One thing that consistently annoyed me however was their use of warning messages.  For example, whenever you overwrite an existing FITS file, the … Continue reading →

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Using Some Python 3 in Python 2.6.x

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Taro

This is just a note for myself to start getting used to the Python 3 coding practices. In order to use some Python 3 features in Python 2.6.x, use this statement in my script: It’s not a very good idea … Continue reading →

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