SimPy 3 has finally been released. It has been rewritten completely from scratch and is now easier to use and more flexible than ever before.

Windows doesn’t support Posix signals. I’ll show you how you can work around this to cleanly terminate process hierarchies.

Until recently, Bitbucket nicely rendered reStructuredText (reST) formatted README.txt files for Python projects. This made totally sense, because PyPI requires the project’s description in reST and most people …

SimPy is a process-based and event-driven simulation framework written in pure Python. It can also be used for multi-agent systems and other eventloop-based applications.

After several months of work and …

A while ago, I found a nice little script called check_for_updates.py which uses PIP to check your installed Python packages for updates. However, it didn’t work under Python …

Today I helped a colleague debugging a web bot written in Java. Since I did’t really work with Java since a few years, I thought it would be easier …

The third and last part of this series is again just about testing. While the previous article focused on unit testing, this one will be about testing complete PyZMQ processes …