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>>> x = [1, 2, 3]
>>> y = [4, 5, 6]
>>> zipped = zip(x, y)
>>> zipped
[(1, 4), (2, 5), (3, 6)]
>>> x2, y2 = zip(*zipped)
>>> x == x2, y == y2
True

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#Moving up/down dir structure
print os.listdir('.') # current level
print os.listdir('..') # one level up
print os.listdir('../..') # two levels up



# more complex example:
# This will walk the file system beginning in the directory the script is run from. It 
# deletes the empty directories at each level

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from time import sleep

sleep(5) #sleeps for 5 seconds

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if ($('#keks').html()) {
 // Do something to remedy the situation
}

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# weird way to represent \'  // exit using ctrl-D
alias sharecode='curl -si -F '\''content=<-'\'' http://dpaste.com/api/v1/ | grep ^Location: | colrm 1 10'

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cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Bundles
  svn co http://svn.textmate.org/trunk/Review/Bundles/GetBundles.tmbundle/

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find . -name \*.pyc -ok rm {} \;

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# To strip/remove HTML tags from an existing string we can use the strip_tags function.

# import the strip_tags
from django.utils.html import strip_tags

# simple string with html inside.
html = '<p>paragraph</p>'
print html # will produce: <p>paragraph</p>

stripped = strip_tags(html)

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# Continuation lines can be used, with a backslash as the last character on the 
# line indicating that the next line is a logical continuation of the line:

hello = "This is a rather long string containing\n\
several lines of text just as you would do in C.\n\
    Note that whitespace at the beginning of the line is\
 significant."

print hello

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>>> import difflib

>>> difflib.SequenceMatcher(None, 'abcde', 'abcde').ratio()
1.0

>>> difflib.SequenceMatcher(None, 'abcde', 'zbcde').ratio()
0.80000000000000004

>>> difflib.SequenceMatcher(None, 'abcde', 'zyzzy').ratio()
0.0