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"""
what's the fastest way to test for order-insensitive equality of two lists of
integers?

running timing tests for compare_sets:
  comparing equal shuffled lists takes 1.289612
  comparing equal unshuffled lists takes 1.226031
  comparing unequal lists takes 0.660738
running timing tests for compare_sort:
  comparing equal shuffled lists takes 2.248559

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"""
query for a database obect which relates to a specific set of other objects.
"""

__author__ = 'scott torborg (scotttorborg.com)'

from sqlalchemy import *
from sqlalchemy.orm import *
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base

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"""
a polymorphic many-to-many association with referential integrity and clean
collection access! (at least in one direction) sqlalchemy is the shit.
"""

__author__ = 'scott torborg (scotttorborg.com)'

from sqlalchemy import *
from sqlalchemy.orm import *
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base

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"""
generalizing the polymorphic many-to-many relation example.
"""

__author__ = 'scott torborg (scotttorborg.com)'

from sqlalchemy import *
from sqlalchemy.orm import *
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
from sqlalchemy.ext.associationproxy import _AssociationList

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"""
example of (bug?) in adding deferred columns to a declarative class
after the
class's creation.

Foo is a normal declarative class with a deferred column. Bar is the
same class,
but with the deferred column added afterwards.
"""

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Price comparison of favorably reviewed SSDs as of 5/31/2009

$/GB    Size    Cost        Vendor

OCZ Summit
4.23    60GB    $253.99     eCOST
4.87    60GB    $292.00     Amazon
3.79    120GB   $455.00     Amazon
3.48    250GB   $871.00     Amazon

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"""
sqlalchemy composite column example.
"""

from sqlalchemy import *
from sqlalchemy.orm import *

metadata = MetaData('sqlite://')

vertices = Table('vertices', metadata,

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"""
Cute twitter bot to twitter pretty flickr photos and unicode characters.
"""

import flickr, random, urllib
from twitter import Twitter

flickr.API_KEY = 'FILL ME IN'

username = 'prettier'

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"""
walk through related tags on twitter.

start it with something like python twitterwalk.py sxsw
"""

import sys, re
from twitter import Twitter

if len(sys.argv) > 1:

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"""
Quick hack to return a likely User Agent based on a weighted list of strings.

Use like:
>>> import useragent
>>> useragent.pick()
"""

import random