Python

I bought the professional version of Komodo 4, the multi-language Web-Dev IDE. I bought the personal version of 3.5 and actually started using it, so I decided to buy the professional version of 4 while ActiveState was offering me a big discount. I'm happy with it, but I spent a few hundred dollars on it before I realized this:

the Gui builder toolkit (previously present only in the pro version) has been removed from pro 4... and is now available for free here.

I got a wild hair and have been trying to decide the best way to go about parsing java thread dumps with python. After a few failed attempts, Paul McGuire, author of the pyparsing python module, came to my rescue. Pyparsing is a fairly simple to use (considering what it is doing) parsing module, that makes quick work out of cryptic log files...

So, I know IDE's are for pussies, or so the hardcore coders I know say... but seeing how I'm not a hardcore coder, but I still need to be able to produce some decent python code in a timely manner, I decided to check out komodo because it handles python, perl, ruby, tcl, php, html, javascript, and a few others... and, it's nice...

I've been looking for a good way to have a python script source a .properties file for environment variables and I found a few posts that pointed to ConfigParser and it works perfectly. Here is the sample script: