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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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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
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import string
import re

INPUT_FILE = 'balanced_smileystxt.txt'

input = open(INPUT_FILE, 'r')

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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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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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#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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--- 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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            DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
                    Version 2, December 2004

 Copyright (C) 2011 YOUR_NAME_HERE <YOUR_URL_HERE>

 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
 copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
 as the name is changed.

            DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE

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/*
 * iTunes Javascript Class, added to the displayed pages.
 * Catches iTunes-api calls from pages, such as
 * http://r.mzstatic.com/htmlResources/6018/dt-storefront-base.jsz
 */

/*global window */

iTunes = { // All called from the page js:
	getMachineID: function () {

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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import sys
import unittest

sys.path.append('src')
sys.path.append('../src')

from common import *