saevarom

# From "Unicode in Python, Completely Demystified" by Kumar McMillan.
# http://farmdev.com/talks/unicode/

def to_unicode_or_bust(
        obj, encoding='utf-8'):
    if isinstance(obj, basestring):
        if not isinstance(obj, unicode):
            obj = unicode(obj, encoding)
    return obj

endolith

# https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/881
# Several of the ColorBrewer maps are "qualitative", meaning
# they are just a group of colors that can be used together 
# for categories of data.  So I remapped Accent to segments 
# instead of continuous:

# Actually, these should be used with ListedColormap, and 
# the number of colors should depend on the number of 
# categories in the data, with colors removed from the 
# list in a certain order?

baali

# Something in lines of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/348630/how-can-i-download-all-emails-with-attachments-from-gmail
# Make sure you have IMAP enabled in your gmail settings.
# Right now it won't download same file name twice even if their contents are different.

import email
import getpass, imaplib
import os
import sys

detach_dir = '.'

pamelafox

// Includes functions for exporting active sheet or all sheets as JSON object (also Python object syntax compatible).
// Tweak the makePrettyJSON_ function to customize what kind of JSON to export.

var FORMAT_ONELINE   = 'One-line';
var FORMAT_MULTILINE = 'Multi-line';
var FORMAT_PRETTY    = 'Pretty';

var LANGUAGE_JS      = 'JavaScript';
var LANGUAGE_PYTHON  = 'Python';

ehazlett

#!/usr/bin/env python
# numpy and biopython are required -- pip install numpy biopython

from Bio import Entrez
from Bio import Medline

MAX_COUNT = 10
TERM = 'Tuberculosis'

print('Getting {0} publications containing {1}...'.format(MAX_COUNT, TERM))

bhelx

#!/usr/bin/env python

#
# Converts any integer into a base [BASE] number. I have chosen 62
# as it is meant to represent the integers using all the alphanumeric
# characters, [no special characters] = {0..9}, {A..Z}, {a..z}
#
# I plan on using this to shorten the representation of possibly long ids,
# a la url shortenters
#

ewilderj

# a messy hack written by Edd Dumbill. http://twitter.com/edd

# You may need to rerun this script if you hit a Twitter Error because you
# use up API rate limiting. That's why we pickle the results, so we can resume
# where we left off.

# get the twitter module using 'easy_install twitter'

from twitter.api import Twitter, TwitterError
from twitter.oauth import OAuth

bkeating

HOWTO: Using FileMerge (opendiff) with Git on OSX

FileMerge (opendiff) can really come in handy when you need to visually compare merging conflicts. Other times it's just a nice visual way to review your days work.

The following method works by creating a simple bash script (git-diff-cmd.sh) that sets us up with the proper command line arguments for Git to pass off files to FileMerge.