Bioinformatics

Since I couldn't find this anywhere, I'll add it here for those who have the same problem: I was trying to test a website with twill and got this at the end of my traceback: raise BrowserStateError("not viewing HTML") BrowserStateError: not viewing HTML After spending a bunch of time making sure that, yes, it was spitting out HTML, I figured out that it specifically means that twill (actually mechanize) doesnt like X HTML. You can likely fix it by adding this at the top of the script: b = twill.get_browser() b._browser._factory.is_html = True twill.browser = b Presumably, there's a real reason that check is in place, but works-4-me...

[NOTE: see the 2nd comment below about using a tuple as a key. better to just use pickle.dumps] I've been playing with google appengine lately. I'm working on a fun, pointless side project. Here's what I came up with for a cache decorator that pulls from memcache based on the args, kwargs and function name if no explicit key is given. The code for creating a key from those is from the recipe linked in the docstring. """ a decorator to use memcache on google appengine. optional arguments: `key`: the key to use for the memcache store `time`: the time to expiry sent to memcache if no key is given, the function name, args, and kwargs are used to create a unique key so that the same function can return different results when called with different arguments (as expected). usage: NOTE: actual usage is simpler as: @gaecache() def some_function(): ... but doctest doesnt seem to like that. >>> import time >>> def slow_fn(): ... time