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Multiple GitHub accounts on one laptop are normal now: a managed work identity,
a personal account, perhaps an open-source organization account. The failure mode
is still surprising. git fetch says the repository does not exist even though
it absolutely does, because SSH offered a key that authenticated successfully
for the …
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I thought it would be neat to keep an eye on the popular google search terms related to Python.
The list below uses JavaScript from Google Trends. You can use the kebab menu icon to choose between "Top" and "Rising" search phrases.
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I had this interesting question the other day. Someone had a file with two columns of data in it. They wanted to assign each column to a different variable and then take action using those two variables. Here's the example I wrote for them:
IFS=$'\n';
for LINE in $(cat …Posted on in Programming
I was recently asked to take two lists and interleave them. Although I can not
think of a scenario off the top of my head where this might be useful, it doesn't
strike me as a completely silly thing to do.
StackOverflow's top answer
for this problem uses itertools.chain …
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Things have changed quite a lot since this post was originally written in 2016. Currently, I would recommend switching over to making asynchronous calls via aiohttp.
One of my scripts that makes an API call has been failing silently lately. It appears that the connection is timing out, but I …
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I've got some code that generates loss reports for EVE Online. It uses the
EVE-KILL API and
Python's urllib2 library. Near
the end of October 2015, I noticed that my calls to the API were returning a
403: Forbidden error from the server. I didn't realize it at the time …
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Although I was getting this output in relation to one of my Jinja2 templates, it really isn't a Jinja2 problem.
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 69: ordinal not in range(128)
The bit of code here should be doing nothing more than printing a float …
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I've mentioned before that
empty strings in Python are false.
This leads to a common if not string paradigm. Unfortunately, this can be
problematic. Check out this snippet:
>>> string = ""
>>> if not string:
... print("empty")
...
empty
That pretty much worked out just as we imagined. The empty string returned False
and …
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The default history view in Git and Mercurial is optimized for completeness, not scanning. A compact one-line log is a better daily tool: short ID, subject, relative date, author, and branch or bookmark context. It does not replace a full graph; it makes the first pass fast enough that you …
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Although I use Git all day long, I actually prefer to use Mercurial for my personal stuff. When I started working on this project to maintain slaptijack.com with Pelican rather than continuing to use Wordpress, one of the things that really interested me was the ability to keep Markdown …
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This is was my next project.
Update: For now I've solved this problem by using FeedWordPress to pull the Atom feed for the Pelican-specific portion of the website.
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Sometimes this pops up when you least expect it:
Agreeing to the Xcode/iOS license requires admin privileges, please re-run as root via sudo.
This morning, I went to refresh one of my git repo's for work, and make spit
that out. What the heck happened last night? Anyway, the …
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Once again I was working on some Python code for EVE Online. This particular bit of code gathers a list of kills for a particular region and then summarizes that data in a daily report. Everything had been working properly, until one day...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users …
