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            DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
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            DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE

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--- a/example-clients/transport.c
+++ b/example-clients/transport.c
@@ -300,11 +300,11 @@
      
 	/* Isolate the command word. */
 	i = 0;
-	while (line[i] && whitespace(line[i]))
+	while (line[i] && isspace(line[i]))
 		i++;
 	word = line + i;

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#Newbie programmer
def factorial(x):
    if x == 0:
        return 1
    else:
        return x * factorial(x - 1)
print factorial(6)


#First year programmer, studied Pascal

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Anonymising PDFs

PDF metadata

Metadata in PDF files can be stored in at least two places:

• the Info Dictionary, a limited set of key/value pairs
• XMP packets, which contain RDF statements expressed as XML

PDF files

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#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import string
import re

INPUT_FILE = 'balanced_smileystxt.txt'

input = open(INPUT_FILE, 'r')

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Disclaimer: I have no idea if this are indeed the correct answers. I just solved the exercises like this. I think that they are right though.

I have added my own code to this gist. It is ugly as hell, just like you can expect from code created in a contest like this.

Beautiful Strings

Difficulty: easy

It is simple to see that a greedy solution is good enough.

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#!/usr/bin/env python
import re


def is_balanced(text):
    """Given text containing only braces ((, ), {, }), returns `True`
    if they can be balanced. Returns `False` otherwise.

    Curly braces ({ and }) are treated as optional.
    """

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#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
Python script to essentially perform the same as:

   gdbus call \
       --session \
       --dest org.gnome.SettingsDaemon \
       --object-path /org/gnome/SettingsDaemon/Power \
       --method org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Power.Screen.SetPercentage 75

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#!/usr/bin/env python

import os
import platform
import sys

print platform.system()
print sys.platform
print os.name

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import daap

client = daap.DAAPClient()
client.connect('192.168.1.100')
session = client.login()
db = session.library()
tracks = db.tracks()
tracks[0].save('/tmp/foo.mp3')