Boris Galerkin posted:

I have a question about logging practices. Basically what's the "best practice" placement of logging outputs? Here's a silly example

code:

# main is the executable called from the script
def main():
    logger.debug('calling do_something')
    do_something()
    logger.debug('do_something successful')

# random library function
def do_something():
    logger.debug('doing something')
    print('Hello world')
    logger.debug('something has been done')

Silly example aside is it considered better practice to write to a log outside of the function call but inside the main executable, inside the library function, or in both?

Boris Galerkin posted:

I have a question about logging practices. Basically what's the "best practice" placement of logging outputs? Here's a silly example

code:

# main is the executable called from the script
def main():
    logger.debug('calling do_something')
    do_something()
    logger.debug('do_something successful')

# random library function
def do_something():
    logger.debug('doing something')
    print('Hello world')
    logger.debug('something has been done')

Silly example aside is it considered better practice to write to a log outside of the function call but inside the main executable, inside the library function, or in both?

Sad Panda posted:

Honestly, no idea how to do that either. Is there no way of telling it, the cwd is where you are? When I was running things through Sublime Text it'd work perfectly like that and if I say logging = /logs/audit.log, it'll put it in the logs subdirectory relative to that file.

Boris Galerkin posted:

I have a question about logging practices. Basically what's the "best practice" placement of logging outputs? Here's a silly example

Silly example aside is it considered better practice to write to a log outside of the function call but inside the main executable, inside the library function, or in both?

robostac posted:

It looks very much like you have a .git in your home folder. Git will check parent folders recursively until it finds one with a .git folder inside it.

Hunt11 posted:

This is a VBA question which I am not sure where to ask so I am going to drop it here.

I have a code for a stock homework assignment where I need to compare what the market opened up at the start of the year for a certain stock and where it closes. If it was just one stock then that would be simple enough but I need to do this for hundreds of stocks.

For i = 2 To Range(Range("A2"), Range("A2").End(xlDown)).Count
If Cells(i + 1, 1).Value <> Cells(i, 1).Value Then
Ticker = Cells(i, 1).Value
Ticker_Total = Ticker_Total + Cells(i, 7).Value
Total_Change = Cells(Right(i, 6)) - Cells(Left(i, 3)).Value
Range("I" & Summary_Table_Row).Value = Ticker
Range("J" & Summary_Table_Row).Value = Total_Change
Range("K" & Summary_Table_Row).Value = Total_Change / 100
Range("L" & Summary_Table_Row).Value = Ticker_Total
Summary_Table_Row = Summary_Table_Row + 1
Ticker = 0
Ticker_Total = 0
Else
Ticker_Total = Ticker_Total + Cells(i, 7).Value
End If
Next i

This is the code I have so far and while it works for finding the volume of the stock that has been traded, I have not been able to get any workable results for the total change. My original attempt had this
If
Total_Change = Cells((i, 6)) - Cells((i, 3)).Value
Total_Change=0
Else
Total_Change = Cells(Right(i, 6)) - Cells(Left(i, 3)).Value
and while it generated a result it was the wrong one when I compared the two values by hand.

Thermopyle posted:

I don't know the answer, but you're more likely to get help if use code tags to format your code. Click the button labeled "bbcode" when you post or edit your post to see instructions on how to do that.

Hunt11 posted:

Here is a picture with the issue. So the number in the top box is where the market closes at the end of the year so the result for the B ticker should be 12.03. In terms of what is going wrong with my calculation the formula is adding up every number in the F and C column and then subtracting the result.

huhu posted:

I've got a bunch of boilerplate code I need to generate for a project. If I want to create a new Foo component I've got

code:

Foo/
  Foo.js
  Foo.styles.js
  package.json

And an example of Foo.js

code:

import React, { Component } from 'react';

import {
} from './Foo.styles';

export default class Foo extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
	<p>some foo text</p>
    );
  }
}

Is there an easy tool out there for generating this kind of stuff? I've never looked into automating boilerplate generation before.

baka kaba posted:

roadhead posted:

Anyone got a handy link for working with an external .EXE from within a WPF UI? I had a conversion process for our old files that are MS Access DBs, so the converter must be built as a 32-bit EXE/DLL because of the garbage that is the OLEDB.

So i've got to call out to that external EXE and then wait on its completion, right now the solution I have fails sometimes because I try and create the IO tab before the conversion s finished...

mystes posted:

How are you currently launching the exe that doesn't allow you to deal with this?

If its System.Diagnostics.Process can't you just use an event or something?

roadhead posted:

As in move the part that responds to the finish into an event handler? That sounds interesting I'll try that.

quote:

Standard out is an output stream that can be captured and redirected to a variety of sources. It's generally a best practice, but it is also a more advanced option as it requires server level configuration to capture the stream and redirect it to the desired destination.

Thermopyle posted:

My General Programming Question is: Is this not the coolest paper?

leper khan posted:

It is with high probability the coolest paper.

TheresaJayne posted:

made no sense to me, what i want to see is Robert Morris' Spell checker code, It was small, compact and had no dictionary yet it got a 99% hit rate.

ulmont posted:

Might be in this paper if you have IEEE access.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6593963/

CzarChasm posted:

Cross Posting from Stupid Questions thread
I'm trying to build a form that will import data in several variables and give them proper case. So for example JANE SMITH run through this code will change to Jane Smith. Likewise, jane smith becomes properly capitalized.

print @str.substring($customer.firstname,0,1);
print @str.substring(@str.tolower($customer.firstname),1) & " ";
print @str.substring($customer.lastname,0,1);
print @str.substring(@str.tolower($customer.lastname),1);

This works fine. I'm trying to do the same thing for addresses, and those are stored as 123 fake st and I want them to be 123 Fake St
The problem is I don't know how long the numerical part of the address is, so I can't just say skip the first three characters, plus a space, and then capitalize like above.

So, what I was thinking was to make a loop that would stop at each space and effectively break the line into however many parts the street address is, and then capitalize the first character in each part. But again, I don't recognize this language and I did not find any examples of doing what I want.

tricksnake posted:

Best/popular coding practice websites/games/apps? OK I have learned C++. Next I get bombarded with "just go code stuff" from every person I ask.