Saqib Nadeem saqib-nadeem

Vim Notes

set list Shows invisible characters.
set listchars What invisibile characters should be set to, see :h listchars for complete list.

Key Remapping

map creates a key map that works in normal, visual, select and operator pending modes
map! creates a key map that works in insert and command-line mode.

Transforming Code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python

Notes from Raymond Hettinger's talk at pycon US 2013 video, slides.

The code examples and direct quotes are all from Raymond's talk. I've reproduced them here for my own edification and the hopes that others will find them as handy as I have!

Looping over a range of numbers

for i in [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]:

	states = ["AL", "AK", "AZ", "AR", "CA", "CO", "CT", "DC", "DE", "FL", "GA",
	"HI", "ID", "IL", "IN", "IA", "KS", "KY", "LA", "ME", "MD",
	"MA", "MI", "MN", "MS", "MO", "MT", "NE", "NV", "NH", "NJ",
	"NM", "NY", "NC", "ND", "OH", "OK", "OR", "PA", "RI", "SC",
	"SD", "TN", "TX", "UT", "VT", "VA", "WA", "WV", "WI", "WY"]

	import json
	import requests

	# Authentication for user filing issue (must have read/write access to
	# repository to add issue to)
	USERNAME = 'CHANGEME'
	PASSWORD = 'CHANGEME'

	# The repository to add this issue to
	REPO_OWNER = 'CHANGEME'

	// Use Gists to store code you would like to remember later on
	console.log(window); // log the "window" object to the console