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How to call a function of a file in python Take the following use case, where I have a script that I use in my Continues Integration (CI) pipeline and I would like to call a function in that file from the command-line with parameters. The inspect module provides several useful functions to help get information about live objects such as modules, classes, methods, functions, tracebacks, frame objects, and code objects.

published on Fri, 17 Nov 2023

Practical cppstd 17 highlights by example Language Features Library Features Language Features Nested namespace definitions namespace A::B::C { // ... } // Rather than: namespace A { namespace B { namespace C { // ... } } } Structured bindings #include <map>#include <string>#include <iostream> struct Vector3 { float X; float Y; float Z; }; using MappingPair = std::pair<int, std::string>; int main() { const auto [x, y, z] = Vector3{1.

published on Mon, 06 Mar 2023

The standard library std::variant is a usefull feature, introduced since c++17, to define a type that can hold multiple alternative types. For example a cell of a CSV file could represent multiple data types such as a string or int. Declaring a new type std::variant<std::string, int> allows to store one of the alternative types at the time. The std::variant internally allocates space for the largest alternative type. But what if you need to extract what the possible alternatives of the std::variant ?

published on Thu, 02 Mar 2023

Universal Binaries contain native instructions for multiple target architectures like x86_64 and arm64 to run your app both on Intel Mac and Apple silicon machines. When using Conan there are a few common build systems, or native build tool generators, when creating packages from the Conan Center Index(CCI) like: CMake, Autotools, Pkgconfig, b2 (Boost Build) and Make. Some of these build tools have build-in support when it comes to building Universal Binaries.

published on Fri, 25 Nov 2022

Introduction Early 2019 I noticed the Magic Mirror project. To me the way of how woodworking and technology come together really got me. I just had to build one from scratch, ofcourse. It was a great opportunity for me to build something physical and learn a few things about some fancy new JavaScript frontend framework. I decided to call it the mirrorm8 project. I never wrote about it until now.

published on Tue, 22 Feb 2022