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import operator
from functools import reduce

def nmea_checksum(sentence: str):
    """
    This function checks the validity of an NMEA string using it's checksum
    """
    sentence = sentence.strip("$\n")
    nmeadata, checksum = sentence.split("*", 1)
    calculated_checksum = reduce(operator.xor, (ord(s) for s in nmeadata), 0)

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import numpy as np

def normalise_angles_deg(array):
    """ Converts angles to -180 => A <= +180  """
    array = np.where(array<-180 , array + 360, array)
    return np.where(array>180 , array - 360, array)

def normalise_angles_rad(array):
    """ Converts angles to -Pi => A <= +Pi  """
    array = np.where(array<-np.pi , array + 2*np.Pi, array)

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import os

FILE = "test.txt"

def file_changed(file):
    """ Checks the windows file attributes to see if a file has been updated """
    new_change_time = None
    last_change_time = None
    while new_change_time == last_change_time:
        if last_change_time is None:

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"""
Generator function for creating a range of floating point numbers

Numpy linspace is probably better unless you cannot have imports!!
"""

def frange(start, stop, step, precision=10):
    """ a range generator that accepts floats """
    k = start
    while k < stop:

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import string
import datetime as dt

def date_converter(date):
    """ converts multiple date formats into a datetime object """
    if isinstance(date, str):
        try:
            d = ""
            for char in date:
                if char in string.punctuation:

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"""
Print function without the newline
"""

from functools import partial

echo = partial(print, end=' ')

echo("Hello world!")
echo("Hello world!")

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import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Create data
t1 = np.arange(0.0, 5.0, 0.1)
t2 = np.arange(0.0, 5.0, 0.02)
data1 = (t1, np.exp(t1) * np.cos(2*np.pi*t1))
data2 = (t2, np.exp(t2) * np.cos(2*np.pi*t2))
data3 = (t2, np.cos(2*np.pi*t2))

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from collections import namedtuple

test_dict = {"a": 0,
             "b": 1,
             "c": 2,
             "d": 3,
             }

test = namedtuple("test", test_dict.keys())(**test_dict)

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class TodoList(object):
    """ A test class showing how to add iterators to classes """
    def __init__(self):
        self.tasks = []  # initialise empty list

    def __iter__(self):
        return iter(self.tasks)

    def add_task(self, task):
        self.tasks.append(task)

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""" Easier to ask forgiveness than permission """

my_dict = {"key_0": 0,
           "key_1": 10,
           "key_2": 20,
           "key_3": 30,
           "key_4": 40,
          }