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Transforming Code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python

Notes from Raymond Hettinger's talk at pycon US 2013 video, slides.

The code examples and direct quotes are all from Raymond's talk. I've reproduced them here for my own edification and the hopes that others will find them as handy as I have!

Looping over a range of numbers

for i in [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]:

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// Use Gists to store code you would like to remember later on
console.log(window); // log the "window" object to the console

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The Case For Go

• Iron.io: How We Went from 30 Servers to 2 with Go
• Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software Engineering
• Behind the Scenes: Big Data at Torbit
• pool.ntp.org DNS server in Go
• Juju at Canonical
• Go at bitly
• NSQ: realtime distributed message processing at scale

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Dear XCorp / Hi, XCorp depending on familiarity

I'm writing in response to X, where you advertised a vacancy for Y. I am interested in applying for this role -- please find my CV attached.

My current employment position is X, which means I'm responsible for delivering/organising/producing A, B, and C. I was previously the Y at Z where I did D. My main responsibility / largest project here has been P, which is a Widget that produces Doo-dads.

While I enjoy working at X for reasons K and L, I find M frustrating. I'm also looking to move on into areas such as N, P and Q, without losing touch with K. I find K valuable but I would prefer to change my working environment to include P.

I'm particularly interested in XCorp because, as well as providing the career experience I'm after, I use your product / admire your work / look up to your staff for these reasons: ...

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// bank.java
// demonstrate basic OOP syntax
Class BankAccount
{
//account balance
private double balance;
//Constructor — Initializing constructor is very important
public BankAccount(double openingBalance);
{
balance = openingBalance;

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#
# NB : this is not secure
# from http://code.activestate.com/recipes/266586-simple-xor-keyword-encryption/
# added base64 encoding for simple querystring :)
#

def xor_crypt_string(data, key='awesomepassword', encode=False, decode=False):
    from itertools import izip, cycle
    import base64
    if decode:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>

#include <netinet/tcp.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>

#include <netinet/tcp.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>