mtimeit module provides a simple way to time small bits of Python code. It has both command line as well as callable interfaces. It avoids a number of common traps for measuring execution times. See also Tim Peters’ introduction to the “Algorithms” chapter in the Python Cookbook, published by O’Reilly.

the command line example:

python -mtimeit -s"from math import sqrt; x = 123" "x**.5"

the module example:

>>> import timeit
>>> s = """\
... try:
...     str.__nonzero__
... except AttributeError:
...     pass
... """
>>> t = timeit.Timer(stmt=s)
>>> print "%.2f usec/pass" % (1000000 * t.timeit(number=100000)/100000)
17.09 usec/pass
>>> s = """\
... if hasattr(str, '__nonzero__'): pass
... """
>>> t = timeit.Timer(stmt=s)
>>> print "%.2f usec/pass" % (1000000 * t.timeit(number=100000)/100000)
4.85 usec/pass

Enabling grep coloring, put it under .bashrc or .bash_profile on mac

alias grep='GREP_COLOR="1;33;40" LANG=C grep --color=auto'

Simple and fast gpg crypt

fmeyer@fnandomac ~/projects/canivete $ gpg -c gpg.txt

I always forget the amazing rsync between a remote and my local disk

rsync -avz -e ssh remoteuser@remotehost:/remote/dir /this/dir/

Whenever you should blame someone on your team … use this tittle commit war tool

git shortlog -s -n --all