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Imagine you have the following HTML: <div> <label>Name:</label> John Smith </div> And you need to locate the text "John Smith" after the label element. In this case, you can locate the label element by text and then use .next_sibling property: from ...

BeautifulSoup has a limited support for CSS selectors, but covers most commonly used ones. Use select() method to find multiple elements and select_one() to find a single element. Basic example: from bs4 import BeautifulSoup data = """ <ul> <li class="item&quo...

You can restrict the valid types used in a generic class by bounding that type in the class definition. Given the following simple type hierarchy: public abstract class Animal { public abstract String getSound(); } public class Cat extends Animal { public String getSound() { ...

Light Table is a good editor to learn, experiment and run Clojure projects. You can also run lein/boot projects by opening project.clj file. It will load all project dependencies. It supports inline evalution, plugins and much more, so there's no need to add print statements and check the output i...

For if you have to fine-tune what is published. import { Mongo } from 'meteor/mongo'; import { Meteor } from 'meteor/meteor'; import { Random } from 'meteor/random'; if (Meteor.isClient) { // established this collection on the client only. // a name is required (first parameter) and this...

On the server, you can create a publication like this. this.userId is the id of the user who is currently logged in. If no user is logged in, you might want to throw an error and respond to it. import Secrets from '/imports/collections/Secrets'; Meteor.publish('protected_data', function () { ...

Using the dateutil library as in the previous example on parsing timezone-aware timestamps, it is also possible to parse timestamps with a specified "short" time zone name. For dates formatted with short time zone names or abbreviations, which are generally ambiguous (e.g. CST, which coul...

It is often helpful to have MATLAB print the 1st line of a function, as this usually contains the function signature, including inputs and outputs: dbtype <functionName> 1 Example: >> dbtype fit 1 1 function [fitobj,goodness,output,warnstr,errstr,convmsg] = fit(xdatain,ydatain,f...

As with primitives, objects can be cast both explicitly and implicitly. Implicit casting happens when the source type extends or implements the target type (casting to a superclass or interface). Explicit casting has to be done when the source type is extended or implemented by the target type (ca...

Note: you need to install Boot before trying this example out. See the Installation and Setup section if you haven't installed it yet. Boot allows making executable Clojure files using shebang (#!) line. Place the following text into a file of your choice (this example assumes it's in the "cur...

In the material design, a Floating action button represents the primary action in an Activity. They are distinguished by a circled icon floating above the UI and have motion behaviors that include morphing, launching, and a transferring anchor point. Make sure the following dependency is added to ...

A tbl_df (pronounced tibble diff) is a variation of a data frame that is often used in tidyverse packages. It is implemented in the tibble package. Use the as_data_frame function to turn a data frame into a tbl_df: library(tibble) mtcars_tbl <- as_data_frame(mtcars) One of the most notable ...

Lambda expressions can be used to handle events, which is useful when: The handler is short. The handler never needs to be unsubscribed. A good situation in which a lambda event handler might be used is given below: smtpClient.SendCompleted += (sender, args) => Console.WriteLine("Ema...

Find properties with a custom attribute - MyAttribute var props = t.GetProperties(BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance).Where( prop => Attribute.IsDefined(prop, typeof(MyAttribute))); Find all custom attributes on a given property va...

Given the model: class MyModel(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=10) model_num = models.IntegerField() flag = models.NullBooleanField(default=False) We can use Q objects to create AND , OR conditions in your lookup query. For example, say we want all objects that ...

Django manger is an interface through which the django model queries the database. The objects field used in most django queries is actually the default manager created for us by django (this is only created if we don't define custom managers). Why would we define a custom manager/queryset? To avo...

package main import ( "log" "text/template" "os" ) type Person struct{ MyName string MyAge int } var myTempContents string= ` This person's name is : {{.MyName}} And he is {{.MyAge}} years old. ` func main() { t,err := temp...

To assign variables from the command-line, -v can be used: $ awk -v myvar="hello" 'BEGIN {print myvar}' hello Note that there are no spaces around the equal sign. This allows to use shell variables: $ shell_var="hello" $ awk -v myvar="$shell_var" 'BEGIN {print m...

Rcpp Attributes makes the process of working with R and C++ straightforward. The form of attributes take: // [[Rcpp::attribute]] The use of attributes is typically associated with: // [[Rcpp::export]] that is placed directly above a declared function header when reading in a C++ file via sou...

When you want to use user generated content in the SQL, it with done with parameters. For example for searching user with the name aminadav you should do: var username = 'aminadav'; var querystring = 'SELECT name, email from users where name = ?'; connection.query(querystring, [username], functi...