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Keynote

It's successes

10 years ago, python was still an esoteric language - paul graham's python paradox, the best language to learn is one that you don't want to learn for a job, but for the enjoyment of it. Today python is one of the biggest langauges.

CTO magazine says Python is a solid enterprise choice.

Increasingly popular is various places, animation pipelines, etc.

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import json
import functools

def load_or_build(filename):
    def wraps(fun):
        @functools.wraps(fun)
        def wrapped(*args, **kwargs):
            try:
                f = file(filename)
                return json.load(f)

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# Description: Boxstarter Script
# Author: Jess Frazelle <jess@linux.com>
# Last Updated: 2017-09-11
#
# Install boxstarter:
# 	. { iwr -useb http://boxstarter.org/bootstrapper.ps1 } | iex; get-boxstarter -Force
#
# You might need to set: Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
#
# Run this boxstarter by calling the following from an **elevated** command-prompt:

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baseUrl="http://content.guardianapis.com/search?tag=tone%2Freviews&section=technology&format=json&show-fields=starRating"
pagef="&page=%d"

for i in range(200):
    j = json.loads(''.join(urllib2.urlopen(baseUrl+pagef % (i+1)).readlines()))
    reviews = [(item['id'],item['fields'].get('starRating')) for item in j['response']['results'] if item['fields'].get('starRating')]
    for id,rating in reviews:
        d[rating] = d.get(rating, []) + [id]

sorted([(k, len(v)) for k,v in d.items()])

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for(i <- 1 to 10) {
	if (isSocketOpen) return
	Thread.sleep(duration/10)
}
sys.error("Timed out")

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val optContacts = person.expand[BasicDBList]("contacts.pending")
for {
      contacts <- optContacts;
      contact <- contacts
      if contact.isInstanceOf[DBObject]
      pendingContact = contact.asInstanceOf[DBObject]
      if pendingContact.expand[String]("contactId").get == contactId
    } {
      // Do stuff on contact and update mongo
    }

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#!/bin/bash

#Set Defaults
requests=${requests:=10}
threads=${threads:=1}
url=${url:=http://testserver/}

while getopts "r:t:u:h" Option
do
  case $Option in

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(gnm60091 test_runs/page…oser :+)% git branch --set-upstream master origin/master
Branch master set up to track remote branch master from origin.
(gnm60091 test_runs/page…oser :+)%

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for fname in *; 
do 
  mv $fname $(echo $fname | sed -e 's/%2F/\//g' -e 's/.*\///'); 
done

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/*
    == Tim ==
    A tiny JavaScript micro-templating script.
    http://gist.github.com/521352

    You can use Tim to write simple templates that use JavaScript's
    familiar dot notation to replace template tags with JSON object
    properties.