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Helper scripts for git

When working with forks & branches for features and pull requests I often find myself needing common actions, like

1. Create a new branch, and I don't care what it's named
2. Update the last commit, and keep the commit message
3. List all the branches I have with some description of what that branch is

Below are the scripts to do just that.

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Python Generators and Yielding

In python yield can be used to transfer information in both directions.

yield 'hello'

will generate (vs return) the string "hello", whereas

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Python's scope

Python's scope of variables should be intuitive, but for those that don't find it as such here's a quick example.

In the file below scope.py I create a dummy class Temp() which prints some debug text when its created and destroyed.

$ python scope.py
Initiating quick
Destroying quick

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Yielding a list of tasks in Tornado 4.0

Note: This behavior has changed in Tornado 4.1

Executing python yield_all.py will produce results similar to:

$ python run_all.py
one is sleeping
two is sleeping

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Backup & Restore MySQL <-> AWS S3

Based on https://gist.github.com/2206527 this script loops through databases and tables and creates individual files that are uploaded to S3.