Summary: When you type script.py at the Command Prompt on Windows, the Python executable used to run the script is not the first python.exe file found on your PATH, it is the the executable that is configured to run .py files when you double-click on them, which is configured in the registry. I ran into a strange […]
So, I really like the Jupyter notebook (formerly known as the IPython notebook), but I often find myself missing the ‘fancy’ features that ‘proper’ editors have. I particularly miss the amazing multiple cursor functionality of editors like Sublime Text and Atom. I’ve known for a while that you can edit a cell in your default […]
I recently saw Michael Galloy’s post at http://michaelgalloy.com/2016/02/18/ten-little-idl-programs.html, showing some short (less than ten lines long) programs in IDL. I used to do a lot of programming in IDL, but have switched almost all of my work to Python now – and was intrigued to see what the code looked like in Python. I can’t […]
I have a Coding bookmarks folder which is stuffed full of loads of interesting articles that I’ve never shared with anyone because they don’t really fit into any of my posts. So, taking an idea from The Old New Thing, I’m going to run a few ‘Link Clearance’ posts. This is the Python-focused one (there will be […]
Summary: Microsoft now provides a single, small installer to get all that you need to compile Python 2.7 binary packages on Windows! This is just a brief post to share the news on something that I didn’t know about until yesterday – but that would have saved me a lot of trouble! You may have experienced […]
This isn’t normal content for my blog, but I thought a post here might reach people who would be interested in the job. Don’t worry, normal service will be resumed shortly – this isn’t going to turn into a job listing site! A research assistant is required to assist with the development of an algorithm […]
So, last time we worked out how communications were encrypted and managed to read the current status of the heating system (whether the boiler is on or not, the current temperature, and so on). That’s great – but it’d be even better if we could actually control the thermostat from Python: set the temperature, change […]
Like a lot of academics, I write many documents in LaTeX – including almost all of my academic papers, and my PhD thesis! So, anything that can make my life easier is of interest to me. I was recently discussing this with a colleague (a co-author on a paper actually), and realised that lots of […]
In the previous part we had established that the Worcester Wave thermostat app communicates with a remote server (run by Worcester Bosch) using the XMPP protocol, with TLS encryption. However, because of the encryption we haven’t yet managed to see the actual content of any of these messages! To decrypt the messages we need to do […]
When we bought a new boiler last year, we decided to install a ‘smart thermostat’. There are a wide range available these days, including the Google Nest, the Hive (from British Gas), and the Worcester Bosch ‘Wave’. As we had a Worcester Bosch boiler we got the Wave – and it wasn’t much more expensive […]