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Python 2.x2.7 To import a module through a function call, use the importlib module (included in Python starting in version 2.7): import importlib random = importlib.import_module("random") The importlib.import_module() function will also import the submodule of a package directly: c...

To share files or to host simple websites(http and javascript) in your local network, you can use Python's builtin SimpleHTTPServer module. Python should be in your Path variable. Go to the folder where your files are and type: For python 2: $ python -m SimpleHTTPServer <portnumber> For p...

If you are building a function that may be heavy on the processor (either clientside or serverside) you may want to consider a memoizer which is a cache of previous function executions and their returned values. This allows you to check if the parameters of a function were passed before. Remember, p...

Trailing spaces \s*$: This will match any (*) whitespace (\s) at the end ($) of the text Leading spaces ^\s*: This will match any (*) whitespace (\s) at the beginning (^) of the text Remarks \s is a common metacharacter for several RegExp engines, and is meant to capture whitespace characters (...

In Python 2, <> is a synonym for !=; likewise, `foo` is a synonym for repr(foo). Python 2.x2.7 >>> 1 <> 2 True >>> 1 <> 1 False >>> foo = 'hello world' >>> repr(foo) "'hello world'" >>> `foo` "'hello world'"...

child.py import time def main(): print "starting work" time.sleep(1) print "work work work work work" time.sleep(1) print "done working" if __name__ == '__main__': main() parent.py import os def main(): for i in range(5):...

This example starts Notepad, waits for it to be closed, then gets its exit code. #include <Windows.h> int main() { STARTUPINFOW si = { 0 }; si.cb = sizeof(si); PROCESS_INFORMATION pi = { 0 }; // Create the child process BOOL success = CreateProcessW( L"C:...

IceCream.objects.filter(metadata__ordered_by='Guido Van Rossum')

An integer will be interpreted as an index lookup. IceCream.objects.filter(metadata__buyer__known_for__0='creating stack overflow') See the note in the "Remarks" section about chaining queries.

Using subprocess.Popen give more fine-grained control over launched processes than subprocess.call. Launching a subprocess process = subprocess.Popen([r'C:\path\to\app.exe', 'arg1', '--flag', 'arg']) The signature for Popen is very similar to the call function; however, Popen will return immedi...

You can create a TCP server using the socketserver library. Here's a simple echo server. Server side from sockerserver import BaseRequestHandler, TCPServer class EchoHandler(BaseRequestHandler): def handle(self): print('connection from:', self.client_address) while True:...

A UDP server is easily created using the socketserver library. a simple time server: import time from socketserver import BaseRequestHandler, UDPServer class CtimeHandler(BaseRequestHandler): def handle(self): print('connection from: ', self.client_address) # Get message and cli...

Python is a hybrid interpreter. When running a program, it first assembles it into bytecode which can then be run in the Python interpreter (also called a Python virtual machine). The dis module in the standard library can be used to make the Python bytecode human-readable by disassembling classes, ...

The iloc (short for integer location) method allows to select the rows of a dataframe based on their position index. This way one can slice dataframes just like one does with Python's list slicing. df = pd.DataFrame([[11, 22], [33, 44], [55, 66]], index=list("abc")) df # Out: # 0...

Inventory is the Ansible way to track all the systems in your infrastructure. Here is a simple inventory file containing a single system and the login credentials for Ansible. [targethost] 192.168.1.1 ansible_user=mrtuovinen ansible_ssh_pass=PassW0rd

[targethost] 192.168.1.1 ansible_user=mrtuovinen ssh_private_key_file=~/.ssh/custom_key

[targethost] 192.168.1.1 ansible_user=mrtuovinen ansible_port=2222

Trap expressions don't have to be individual functions or programs, they can be more complex expressions as well. By combining jobs -p and kill, we can kill all spawned child processes of the shell on exit: trap 'jobs -p | xargs kill' EXIT

Using the timeit module from the command line: > python -m timeit 'for x in xrange(50000): b = x**3' 10 loops, best of 3: 51.2 msec per loop > python -m timeit 'from math import pow' 'for x in xrange(50000): b = pow(x,3)' 100 loops, best of 3: 9.15 msec per loop The built-in ** operato...

The typing.TypeVar is a generic type factory. It's primary goal is to serve as a parameter/placeholder for generic function/class/method annotations: import typing T = typing.TypeVar("T") def get_first_element(l: typing.Sequence[T]) -> T: """Gets the first ele...