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The console for the primary version of Python can usually be opened by typing py into your windows console or python on other platforms. $ py Python 3.4.3 (v3.4.3:9b73f1c3e601, Feb 24 2015, 22:44:40) [MSC v.1600 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits&...

You can set an environment variable called PYTHONSTARTUP for Python's console. Whenever you enter the Python console, this file will be executed, allowing for you to add extra functionality to the console such as importing commonly-used modules automatically. If the PYTHONSTARTUP variable was set t...

Python has a variety of command-line switches which can be passed to py. These can be found by performing py --help, which gives this output on Python 3.4: Python Launcher usage: py [ launcher-arguments ] [ python-arguments ] script [ script-arguments ] Launcher arguments: -2 : Launch ...

The Python console adds a new function, help, which can be used to get information about a function or object. For a function, help prints its signature (arguments) and its docstring, if the function has one. >>> help(print) Help on built-in function print in module builtins: print(.....

Install the SDK Download & unzip the SDK Make sure you are using the latest version of Xcode (7.0+) and targeting iOS 7.0 or highe Download SDK Add the SDKs to your app Drag the Parse.framework and Bolts.framework you downloaded into your Xcode project folder target. Make sure th...

The For Each loop construct is ideal for iterating all elements of a collection. Public Sub IterateCollection(ByVal items As Collection) 'For Each iterator must always be variant Dim element As Variant For Each element In items 'assumes element can be converted to a stri...

Public Sub DoLoop() Dim entry As String entry = "" 'Equivalent to a While loop will ask for strings until "Stop" in given 'Prefer using a While loop instead of this form of Do loop Do While entry <> "Stop" entry = InputBox("...

'Will return whether an element is present in the array Public Function IsInArray(values() As String, ByVal whatToFind As String) As Boolean Dim i As Integer i = 0 While i < UBound(values) And values(i) <> whatToFind i = i + 1 Wend IsInArray = valu...

The For loop is used to repeat the enclosed section of code a given number of times. The following simple example illustrates the basic syntax: Dim i as Integer 'Declaration of i For i = 1 to 10 'Declare how many times the loop shall be executed Debug.Print i 'Th...

Sometimes you need to keep a linear (non-branching) history of your code commits. If you are working on a branch for a while, this can be tricky if you have to do a regular git pull since that will record a merge with upstream. [alias] up = pull --rebase This will update with your upstream so...

A common use case for *args in a function definition is to delegate processing to either a wrapped or inherited function. A typical example might be in a class's __init__ method class A(object): def __init__(self, b, c): self.y = b self.z = c class B(A): def __init__(...

You can use a dictionary to assign values to the function's parameters; using parameters name as keys in the dictionary and the value of these arguments bound to each key: def test_func(arg1, arg2, arg3): # Usual function with three arguments print("arg1: %s" % arg1) print("a...

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In this example a custom LAMP project development environment is created with Vagrant. First of all you will need to install Virtual Box and Vagrant. Then, create a vagrant folder in your home directory, open your terminal and change the current directory to the new vagrant directory. Now, execute...

You have a local vagrant box that you want to upload to Amazon AWS. First, you need to create a .box file: vagrant package --base my-virtual-machine This step should take a while depending on the size of your image. Then, you need to get the .vmdk image from the .box file: gunzip -S .box packag...

In Prolog, custom operators can be defined using op/3: op(+Precedence, +Type, :Operator) Declares Operator to be an operator of a Type with a Precedence. Operator can also be a list of names in which case all elements of the list are declared to be identical operators. Precedence is an in...

FlowPane lays out nodes in rows or columns based on the available horizontal or vertical space available. It wraps nodes to the next line when the horizontal space is less than the total of all the nodes' widths; it wraps nodes to the next column when the vertical space is less than the total of all...

This example uses four different files: The User model The User mailer The html template for the email The plain-text template for the email In this case, the user model calls the approved method in the mailer and passes the post that has been approved (the approved method in the model may ...

Introduce environment variable VAGRANT_DEFAULT_PROVIDER export VAGRANT_DEFAULT_PROVIDER=vmware_fusion

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config| # ... other config up here config.vm.provider "vmware_fusion" end