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"""
This goes in the PYTHONSTARTUP file.

Example:

>>> pubdir([])
['append', 'count', 'extend', 'index', 'insert', 'pop', 'remove', 'reverse', 'sort']
"""

__pubdir_no_arg = []                                                        

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#!/usr/bin/python

"""
howoldami - Compute your age in days and years.

Unix has whoami, but it's missing howoldami. No longer!

    $ howoldami
    You are 15884 days old (or 43.49 years)

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# Turn prompt off
function poff {
  PS1='$ '
}
 
# Turn prompt on
function pon {
  # Todo: make this work on mac
  PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ '
}

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#!/bin/sh                                                                            

# Remove dotencode from a Mercurial repository.                                      

if [ -z $1 ]; then
    echo "usage: dotdecode REPOSITORY"
    echo
    echo "A backup will be made to REPOSITORY.dotencode"
    exit 1
fi

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#!/usr/bin/env node	

/*
 * CLI frontend for jshint.js
 * 
 * When I wrote this, I didn't know there is
 *
 * a much more mature project at:
 *   https://github.com/jshint/node-jshint
 *

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#!/bin/sh

#
# Open nautilus in current directory by default
#

if [ -z $* ]; then
    nautilus .
else
    nautilus $*

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Today's lesson: Never call your module types.py if you plan to run
Python from when standing in the same directory. It took me some
time to figure out what was going on:

$ touch types.py   # empty file
$ python
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 68, in <module>
    import os
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 398, in <module>

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import os
from contextlib import contextmanager

@contextmanager
def chdir(dirname):
    old = os.getcwd()
    os.chdir(dirname)
    yield old
    os.chdir(old)

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import os
import shutil
import tempfile
from contextlib import contextmanager

@contextmanager
def tmpdir(suffix='', prefix='tmp', dir=None):
    dirname = tempfile.mkdtemp(suffix=suffix, prefix=prefix, dir=dir)
    yield dirname
    shutil.rmtree(dirname)