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One-line Tree in Python

Using Python's built-in defaultdict we can easily define a tree data structure:

def tree(): return defaultdict(tree)

That's it!

New Machine

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

General Config

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

Imaging

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

Scrapping/Parsing

BeautfulSoup - HTML parser
mechanize - automated web browsing

GETTING STARTED

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

Imaging

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

Scrapping/Parsing

BeautfulSoup - HTML parser
mechanize - automated web browsing

	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;
	}

	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;
	}

	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