This is a very good article with lots of cools things that Python can do. Python Tips, Tricks, and Hacks Link Summary http://www.siafoo.net/article/52

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I feel like a proud father. Yesterday I posted my first public Python recipe. Go check it out: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576858/. Link Summary http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576858/

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There is a portion of my test infrastructure that requires long sleep periods for stability soak testing purposes. So far the longest stability test run was 9 days. Originally, I simply used the time.sleep() method from the Python library. However, and I attribute this to VMware, I found that extremely inaccurate for long sleep durations. [...]

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I work at a company that designs and builds network routers, so you can imagine that on occasion I need to create custom Ethernet packets for testing.  For hardcore traffic testing we’ve got some really expensive packet generator hardware that can send packets at full line rate.  For my tests I don’t need raw data [...]

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