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newpy () {
  local lowercase_string="$(echo "$1" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')"                      # Convert folder name to lowercase
  local hyphenated_string="$(echo "$lowercase_string" | tr -c '[:alnum:]' '-')"           # Convert non-alphanumeric characters to hyphens
  local clean_string="$(echo "$hyphenated_string" | sed -e 's/^-*//' -e 's/-*$//')"       # Remove leading and trailing hyphens
  folder_name=$(date +%Y%m%d)-$clean_string                                               # Prepend date, formatted like YYYYMMDD
  mkdir -p <repository-where-i-want-my-adhoc-analysis-folders-to-reside>/$folder_name     # Create folder
  cd <repository-where-i-want-my-adhoc-analysis-folders-to-reside>/$folder_name           # ... cd into it
  virtualenv env                                                                          # Create virtual env
  source env/bin/activate                                                                 # ... activate it
  pip3 install -U flake8 black                                                            # Install packages you always use
  code .                                                                                  # Launch VSCode
}