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def runInThread(fn, *args, **kw):
    """Execute fn(*args, **kw) in a new thread context and return the result.

    The execution is synchronous, i.e. blocking.

    Typical use cases for runInThread will be the inspection of side effects
    that are normally invisible to other threads until you commit a transaction
    or something like that.
    """
    # Aargh! Why can't threading.Thread(target=fn).join() return the result of

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import signal
import sys
from functools import contextmanager


@contextmanager
def timeout(p, seconds):
    """Kill subprocess ``p`` if the with block times out.
    
    Usage example ::

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# check for screen sessions
if [ -d /var/run/screen/S-$USER/ ]; then
    n=$(find  /var/run/screen/S-$USER/ -type p|wc -l)
    if [ $n -gt 0 ]; then
        test x"$TERM" = xscreen && test -n "$WINDOW" \
            && echo "You have $n active screen sessions (and this is one of them)." \
            || echo "You have $n active screen sessions."
    fi
fi

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--- bitten/notify.py.orig  2010-10-21 00:00:00.000000000 -0400
+++ bitten/notify.py       2012-05-22 12:41:56.088838001 -0400
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@
             'notify_on_successful_build', 'false',
             """Notify if bitten build succeeds.""")

+    notify_on_success_after_failure = BoolOption('notification',
+            'notify_on_successful_build_after_failure', 'false',
+            '''Notify if bitten build succeeds after a build failed.''')
+

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#!/bin/sh
# Check out one of Zope 3 subversion projects
USAGE="Usage: $0 [--git] [-b branchname] [-n|--dry-run] projectname [directory]"
BASEURL=svn+ssh://svn.zope.org/repos/main
project=
branch=trunk
dir=
git=0
dry_run=
while true; do

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#!/usr/bin/python
"""
Produce a disk inventory for fridge:

  - how many hard disks and how large
  - how are they partitioned
  - how are the RAID devices defined
  - where are they mounted
  - how much space is used and how much is free

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Ctrl+Shift+PageUp/Down reorder tabs (try #3, this one works and seems to be in the right place)
    
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702960

diff -r d2fbc67f69f5 browser/base/content/tabbrowser.xml
--- a/browser/base/content/tabbrowser.xml	Fri Nov 30 13:51:45 2012 +0000
+++ b/browser/base/content/tabbrowser.xml	Mon Dec 03 14:35:29 2012 +0200
@@ -2504,6 +2504,25 @@
             return;
           }

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import linecache
import traceback
import sys
import mako.template

def mako_error_handler(context, error):
    """Decorate tracebacks when Mako errors happen.

    Evil hack: walk the traceback frames, find compiled Mako templates,
    stuff their (transformed) source into linecache.cache.

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$ virtualenv /tmp/sandbox
...

$ /tmp/sandbox/bin/pip install mako
...

$ /tmp/sandbox/bin/python mako_tb.py 

= Default traceback =

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#!/usr/bin/python
"""Check the MANIFEST.in file in a Python source package for completeness.

Here's the plan:
    This script works by building a source distribution archive (by running
    setup.py sdist), then checking the file list in the archive against the
    file list in version control (Subversion, Git, Mercurial, Bazaar are
    supported).

    Since the first check can fail to catch missing MANIFEST.in entries when