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mastbaum / gist:1154055
Created August 18, 2011 13:30 — forked from fdmanana/gist:832610
The CouchDB replicator database

1. Introduction to the replicator database

A database where you PUT/POST documents to trigger replications and you DELETE to cancel ongoing replications. These documents have exactly the same content as the JSON objects we used to POST to /_replicate/ (fields "source", "target", "create_target", "continuous", "doc_ids", "filter", "query_params".

Replication documents can have a user defined "_id". Design documents (and _local documents) added to the replicator database are ignored.

The default name of this database is _replicator. The name can be changed in the .ini configuration, section [replicator], parameter db.

2. Basics

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mastbaum / number_hack.py
Created September 12, 2011 14:16 — forked from Jach/number_hack.py
Overrides the Python integer five to be equal to four with ctypes magic
import sys
import ctypes
pyint_p = ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_byte*sys.getsizeof(5))
five = ctypes.cast(id(5), pyint_p)
print(2 + 2 == 5) # False
five.contents[five.contents[:].index(5)] = 4
print(2 + 2 == 5) # True (must be sufficiently large values of 2 there...)