perrygeo

Avoiding padding errors with Python's base64 encoding

>>> import base64
>>> data = '{"u": "test"}'
>>> code = base64.b64encode(data)
>>> code
'eyJ1IjogInRlc3QifQ=='

magnetikonline

Bash string manipulation cheatsheet

Assignment
Assign value to variable if variable is not already set, value is returned. Combine with a : no-op to discard/ignore return value.	${variable="value"} : ${variable="value"}

joar

I encountered this issue:

(mediagoblin)➜  ~VIRTUAL_ENV git:(master) ✗ ./runtests.sh                                                                         belz
Using ./bin/py.test
+ CELERY_CONFIG_MODULE=mediagoblin.init.celery.from_tests
+ exec ./bin/py.test ./mediagoblin/tests --boxed
/home/joar/git/mediagoblin/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pytest-2.3.4-py2.7.egg/_pytest/assertion/oldinterpret.py:3: DeprecationWarning: The compiler package is deprecated and removed in Python 3.x.
  from compiler import parse, ast, pycodegen