Python Tips File I/O! f = open('workfile.b','r') a = f.read() # or .readlines() f.close() f = open('workfile.b','w') f.write('hello,world') f.close() FastAI Debug python -m fastai.utils.show_install Pickle! import pickle p = pickle.load(open('loadercards.p','r')) pickle.dump(x,open('loadercard.p','wb')) Time import datetime timestring = datetime.datetime.now().isoformat() timestring = datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') Find differences between two lists temp1 = ['One', 'Two', 'Three', 'Four'] temp2 = ['One', 'Two', 'Five'] diff1 = list(set(temp1) - set(temp2)) diff2 = list(set(temp2) - set(temp1)) #what is common? common = set(temp1).intersection(set(temp2)) Start Jupyter (ipython) Notebook navigate to folder open cmd window jupyter notebook