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##How Homakov hacked GitHub and the line of code that could have prevented it

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	#!/usr/bin/env python
	"""
	Recipe for creating and updating security groups programmatically.


	"""

	import collections

	import boto

	package dropbox

	import (
	"bytes"
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
	"net/url"
	"strconv"

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html lang="en">
	<head>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
	<title>Stripe Getting Started Form</title>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="https://js.stripe.com/v1/"></script>
	<!-- jQuery is used only for this example; it isn't required to use Stripe -->
	<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript">
	// this identifies your website in the createToken call below

	package main

	import (
	"websocket"
	"http"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	)

	func EchoServer(ws *websocket.Conn) {

	""":mod:`hstore` --- Using PostgreSQL hstore with SQLAlchemy
	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

	.. note::

	I released it under Public Domain. Feel free to use!

	It provides :class:`Hstore` type which makes you to store Python
	dictionaries into hstore columns in PostgreSQL. For example::

	package main

	import (
	"compress/gzip"
	"io"
	"net/http"
	"strings"
	)

	type gzipResponseWriter struct {

	package main

	import (
	"encoding/xml"
	"fmt"
	"log"
	)

	const data = `<Note>
	<To>Tove</To>

	"""I suspect that there is a race condition in datetime module.

	When I ran the following code in a multi-threading application:

	datetime.datetime.strptime('20120509100335', "%Y%m%d%H%M%S")

	I've noticed the following error in the log.

	Traceback (most recent call last):
	File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 522, in __bootstrap_inner