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with open('new.txt') as f, open('orig.txt') as f2:
    def zipper(f, f2):
        for line in zip(f, f2):
            yield line
            next(f2) # skip every other f2 line
    with open('out.txt', 'w') as out:
        out.writelines(zipper(f,f2))

# then replace orig.txt with out.txt
# maybe os.remove('orig.txt'); os.rename('out.txt', 'orig.txt') ?

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def method_real(self, args):

    def _validator(self, args):
        do-validation
        
    _validator(args)
    do-real-thing

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# this will read the file line by line
with open("path/to/file") as infile:
    for line in infile:
        do_something_to_the(line)

# this will see if a sequence adds up to 15
sum(some_sequence) == 15

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#Read Custom Animations 
import re
import binascii

anim_1 = (r'fire_0_anim.txt')

#repr of anim_1 " '16,\n17,\n18,\n19,\n20,\n21,\n22,\n23,\n24,\n25,\n26,\n27,\n28' "

with open(anim_1, 'rb') as anim_1_:
    anim_1_read = anim_1_.read()

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Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am NotTheEconomist on github.
• I am adsmith (https://keybase.io/adsmith) on keybase.
• I have a public key whose fingerprint is A492 B2D4 D8F2 31CF 3351 A152 8C09 4DBA 1D8C ADFC

To claim this, I am signing this object:

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def binary_search(needle, haystack):
    start, end = 0, len(haystack)-1
    while start < end:
        pivot_idx = (start + end) // 2
        pivot = haystack[pivot_idx]
        if needle == pivot:
            return True
        if pivot_idx == start:
            # edge case -- I'm sure a better algorithm
            # would write this into the while condition

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from flask import Flask
from sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy

db = SQLAlchemy()

def create_app(info=None):
    app = Flask(__name__)
    # config app commented out
    db.init_app(app)
    

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from sqlalchemy import create_engine, Column, Integer
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker

Base = declarative_base()


class MyRow(Base):
    __tablename__ = "m"
    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)

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# assuming you've already populated d as
# d = {"pdf": ... } or whatever

from operator import itemgetter

print("Extension | Count")
for key,val in sorted(d.items(), key=itemgetter(1), reverse=True):
    print("{:>9} | {}".format(key, val))

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class Point(object):
    def __init__(self, x, y):
        self.x = x
        self.y = y
    
    def __sub__(self, other):
        """Distance between two points
        
        Point(1, 1) - Point(1, 0) == 1
        """