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import codecs

def unicode_safe_127(ss, debug=False):
    """safely handle strings with have ordinal values greater than 127
    by escaping each value as appropriate.
    if debug=True, log each conversion to stderr
    """
    mys = ss
    tos=[]
    for i,s in enumerate(mys):

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($=document.createElement('script')).src='http://j.mp/jqueryjs';(document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0]).appendChild($)

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Imaging

• NodeBox - a nice lib to create images of graph networks
• Python Image Library

Scrapping/Parsing

• BeautfulSoup - HTML parser
• mechanize - automated web browsing

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Array.from() & Array.of()

Original discussion began on Twitter and can be found by starting here and here. Discussion was continued on es-discuss mailing list in the thread Pure win: Array.from and Array.of

Update Nov. 3, 2011

Official strawman has been posted: http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:array_extras

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from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler
from SocketServer import ThreadingMixIn
import threading
import requests

class Handler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
    def __init__(self, request, client_address, server):
        print "Init!"
        self.protocol_version = 'HTTP/1.1'
        BaseHTTPRequestHandler.__init__(self, request, client_address, server) #http://www.mlsite.net/blog/?p=80

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GETTING STARTED

• http://mirnazim.org/writings/python-ecosystem-introduction/
• http://python.net/~goodger/projects/pycon/2007/idiomatic/handout.html
• http://effbot.org/zone/python-with-statement.htm
• http://www.python.org/dev/peps/
• http://www.mindviewinc.com/Books/Python3Patterns/Index.php
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/986006/python-how-do-i-pass-a-variable-by-reference
• http://agiliq.com/blog/2012/06/understanding-args-and-kwargs/

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Imaging

• NodeBox - a nice lib to create images of graph networks
• Python Image Library

Scrapping/Parsing

• BeautfulSoup - HTML parser
• mechanize - automated web browsing

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New Machine

Here's what I do after I do a fresh install of Lion. Things are sorta grouped by type.

General Config

1. Run Software Update
2. Start downloading Xcode
3. Disable auto-bright and turn brightness all the way up
4. Enable mouse right click

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function chunk(a, s){
    for(var x, i = 0, c = -1, l = a.length, n = []; i < l; i++)
        (x = i % s) ? n[c][x] = a[i] : n[++c] = [a[i]];
    return n;
}

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function(key, values, rereduce) {
      Array.prototype.unique = function() {
        var a = [];
        var l = this.length;
        for(var i=0; i<l; i++) {
          for(var j=i+1; j<l; j++) {
            // If this[i] is found later in the array
            if (this[i] === this[j])
              j = ++i;
          }