Mon 11 May 17:03 IST
Hi,
This is the first entry in my intern diary, I'm interning at Continuum Analytics a software company based in Austin, USA. I was supposed to be at Austin office but due to visa issues I couldn't travel to US. Hence I'm working remotely.
I've been give a project a automatically build Python packages from the Python Package Index for Continuum's Python agnostic cross platform package manager conda. I started my intern last monday and last week:
conda recipes
using conda-skeleton
.conda build
and fixed a little bugPyPI
using vanity
I have not analyzed every failure but it appears that most of the recipes failures, conda-skeleton
was not at fault. A lot of packages were non-existent, or there was something wrong in the setup.py
. Today I set to analyze these failures and listed some of the typical errors. I wanted to classify package on basis of the error and really want to figure out if there is something wrong with the package or with conda-skeleton, for that I had to make additional modifications to the shell script but I was kinda disgusted from its current state. Also I was overwhelemed with the sheer number packages, so I first wrote a script to randomly select n
number of packages from a list of packages and then rewrote the shell script in python. In the process I learned the argparse and the subprocess. I was impressed by the ease of using argparse
.