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twneale / gist:5245670
Last active April 19, 2023 11:08
.pythonrc file that adds command history and tab completion to my python shell.
'''
Save this file and add the following line to your ~/.bashrc"
export PYTHONSTARTUP="$HOME/.pythonrc"
'''
import os
import readline
import rlcompleter
import atexit
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twneale / gist:5272534
Last active June 21, 2020 11:24
Never type "touch __init__.py" again
# I just put this puppy in my .bashrc.
# Usage:
# - pin # equivalent to "touch __init__.py"
# - pin some/dir # equivalent to "touch some/dir/__init__.py"
#
# Thanks to paultag for lending me his bash chops.
#
function pin { if [ "x$1" = "x" ]; then DIR="./"; else DIR="$1"; fi; touch ${DIR}/__init__.py; }
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twneale / gist:6855493
Last active March 25, 2018 12:43
fab context manager to activate virtualenv before running command
'''See http://stackoverflow.com/a/5359988/120991
'''
from fabric.api import *
from contextlib import contextmanager
env.update(
use_ssh_config=True,
directory='/home/ubuntu/projects/thingy',
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twneale / pypscl-example.py
Last active December 16, 2016 19:15
Calculating legislator ideal points with Python
from sunlight import openstates, response_cache
from pscl.ext.openstates import RollcallBuilder
response_cache.enable('mongo')
response_cache.logger.setLevel(10)
spec = dict(state='al', chamber='lower', search_window='term:2011-2014')
valid_ids = [leg['id'] for leg in openstates.legislators(spec)]
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twneale / keybase.md
Created September 1, 2016 14:43

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twneale / gist:8363605
Created January 10, 2014 22:05
Get a set of all paragraph numbers used in the Code of Federal Regulations
import re
import os
import sys
import json
import contextlib
import lxml.etree
@contextlib.contextmanager
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twneale / gist:7826458
Created December 6, 2013 15:26
How to compare two strings with difflib
>>> import difflib
>>> for opcode in difflib.SequenceMatcher(None, "This is a test.", "That is a tent").get_opcodes():
... print opcode
...
('equal', 0, 2, 0, 2)
('replace', 2, 4, 2, 4)
('equal', 4, 12, 4, 12)
('replace', 12, 13, 12, 13)
('equal', 13, 14, 13, 14)
('delete', 14, 15, 14, 14)
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twneale / gist:6443253
Created September 4, 2013 21:42
Salty bet search script
from operator import methodcaller
import lxml.html
from whoosh.index import create_in
from whoosh.fields import *
from whoosh.qparser import QueryParser
class Stats(object):
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twneale / gist:6371143
Last active December 21, 2015 21:49
My script for cheating at Boggle. words.json is just the scrabble dictionary as a big list.
'''
A boggle board is a mapping of coordinates to letters.
'''
from os.path import dirname, abspath, join
import pdb
import json
import random
from itertools import chain, product
from functools import partial
from operator import add, itemgetter
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twneale / Setup citation-network-analysis
Created July 27, 2013 19:00
How to set up the materials for my PyData Boston 2013 talk on citation network analysis.
$ virtualenv pydata2013
$ source ./pydata2013/bin/activate
$ git clone git@github.com:twneale/citation-network-analysis.git
$ cd citation-network-analysis
# Note: if the follwing step fails, you're missing dependencies. If resolving them is not you're cup of tea,
# I recommend installing the free anaconda distribution of python from Continuum Analytics: https://store.continuum.io/
$ pip install -r requirements.txt