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import time


class Timer(object):
    def __enter__(self):
        self.start = time.clock()
        return self

    def __exit__(self, *args):
        self.end = time.clock()

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import urlparse


def is_url(str_):
    """
    Returns True if string is a URL.

    >>> is_url('not a url')
    False
    >>> is_url('http://www.example.com')

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import pytest

def is_connected():
    import socket
    try:
        host = socket.gethostbyname("www.google.com")
        socket.create_connection((host, 80), 2)
        return True
    except:
        pass

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sudo apt-get remove ffmpeg x264 libav-tools libvpx-dev libx264-dev yasm
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install autoconf automake build-essential checkinstall git libass-dev \
  libgpac-dev libmp3lame-dev libopencore-amrnb-dev libopencore-amrwb-dev libspeex-dev \
  libtheora-dev libtool libvorbis-dev pkg-config texi2html zlib1g-dev
cd
wget http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/releases/yasm-1.2.0.tar.gz
tar xzvf yasm-1.2.0.tar.gz
cd yasm-1.2.0
./configure

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"""
Create argument within decorator and pass to decorated method.
Key things that make this possible is to ensure that your decorated method allows *args and **kwargs to be passed.
You then within the decorator append whatever to kwargs and/or args.
"""
def decorate_my_decorator(f):
    def function_my_decorator(*args, **kwargs):
        kwargs['somethings'] = 'hello'
        return f(*args, **kwargs)
    return function_my_decorator

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function virtualenv_info {
    [ $VIRTUAL_ENV ] && echo '('`basename $VIRTUAL_ENV`') '
}

function prompt_char {
    git branch >/dev/null 2>/dev/null && echo '±' && return
    hg root >/dev/null 2>/dev/null && echo '☿' && return
    echo '○'
}

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import boto.sqs

""" Defence from brief connection outages """ 
@retry(10)
def connect_to_sqs():
    conn = boto.sqs.connect_to_region("us-west-2")
    return conn.create_queue('myqueue')

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import re

pattern = "\\[(.*)] Multi (.+):(.+):(?P\\w+) (.+):(?P\\w+) (.+):(?P\\w+) (.+):(?P\\w+)"
match = re.search(pattern, output)
scan = dict((k, int(v)) for k, v in match.groupdict().iteritems())
scan = max(scan, key=scan.get)

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[idet @ 0x17d10a0] Single frame detection: TFF:32 BFF:0 Progressive:0 Undetermined:42
[idet @ 0x17d10a0] Multi frame detection: TFF:58 BFF:0 Progressive:0 Undetermined:16

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ffmpeg -t 00:01:00 -i input.mpg -map 0:0 -vf idet -c rawvideo -y -f rawvideo /dev/null