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Interactive Debugging in any Python Web Project

Ron DuPlain - PyOhio 2013

Turn this:

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#! /bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/supervisord
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          supervisord
# Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: process supervisor
### END INIT INFO

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#!/bin/sh
# /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d
# Do not stop/restart postgresql. --rduplain 2013-02-13
# http://askubuntu.com/a/254307/113086

if [ "$1" = "postgresql" ]; then
    # Forbid stop/restart, or any init action for that matter.
    # 101 - action forbidden by policy
    exit 101
fi

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"Build a road-trip curated mp3 directory of a podcast."

# Developed against feedparser v5.1.2 and BeautifulSoup v3.2.1.
# pip install feedparser BeautifulSoup

import datetime
import re
import time
import urllib

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#!/bin/sh
# Watch xscreensaver and react to status changes.
#
# Replaced my previous perl-based recipe with this:
# http://semicomplete.googlecode.com/svn/tools/xscreensaver-watch.sh
#
# Include somewhere in X session startup with:
#
#     xscreensaver-watch &

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#!/bin/bash
# Hook for git commits to print top-line character count of commit message.
# Useful for calls to `git commit -m '...'` keeping to 50 char convention.
#
# Place into a file called .git/hooks/commit-msg on a repository.
# Be sure to set executable mode: chmod a+x .git/hooks/commit-msg

count_plus_newline=`head -1 $1 | wc -m | awk '{ print $1 }'`
let count=$count_plus_newline-1
echo "Top line character count: $count"

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This demonstrates that you can configure a Flask application through Flask-Script, without having to create a Flask instance or deal with circular dependencies. Note that Flask-Script's Manager accepts a factory function in place of a Flask app object.

Running:

python manage.py runserver

gives "Hello, world!" on http://localhost:5000/, while running:

python manage.py runserver -c development.cfg

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"Wrapper to provide ed-style line editing."
# Ron DuPlain <ron.duplain@gmail.com>

from subprocess import Popen, PIPE


def edit(text, command):
    r"""Edit given text using ed-style line editing, using system's sed command.

    Examples:

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"A dumb script builder to clone scraped GitHub repo listings."

# 1. Scrape <ul id="repo_listing" class="repo_list"> into listing.html
# 2. python build_clone_script.py | sort -u > clone.sh
# 3. time sh clone.sh

from __future__ import print_function

import lxml.html

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