David theddaywork

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Press minus + shift + s and return to chop/fold long lines!

NOTE: This is a question I found on StackOverflow which I’ve archived here, because the answer is so effing phenomenal.

If you are not into long explanations, see [Paolo Bergantino’s answer][2].

	## follow redirects, including rePOSTing, with the requests library.
	######################################################################

	import requests

	## authentication with no redirects
	ans = requests.post(url=endp_prod + "/session", data=json.dumps(d), headers=h)

	## results in a successful login
	ans.status_code

	# /etc/udev/rules.d/99-usb-serial.rules
	# udevadm info --attribute-walk -n /dev/ttyUSB0 \|grep serial (can be used to get serial number)
	# udevadm control --reload-rules (reload rules)
	# udevadm trigger (re-add all devices)
	# see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bus_pirate
	# for some reason, ATTRS{bInterfaceNumber}=="00" is not working, hence the use of ENV{}

	# single USB/serial adapters
	SUBSYSTEM=="tty", ATTRS{serial}=="A900TUKZ", SYMLINK+="ttyUSB_bub_1"
	SUBSYSTEM=="tty", ATTRS{serial}=="A700fdWb", SYMLINK+="ttyUSB_bub_2"

	Installing CYGWIN with SSH
	1) Download cygwin setup.exe from http://www.cygwin.com
	- Execute setup.exe
	- Install from internet
	- Root directory: `c:\cygwin` + all users
	- Local package directory: use default value
	- Select a mirror to download files from
	- Select these packages:
	- editors > xemacs 21.4.22-1
	- net > openssh 6.1-p


	FILE SPACING:

	# double space a file
	sed G

	# double space a file which already has blank lines in it. Output file
	# should contain no more than one blank line between lines of text.
	sed '/^$/d;G'

	import win32serviceutil
	import win32service
	import win32event
	import servicemanager
	import socket
	import time
	import logging

	logging.basicConfig(
	filename = 'c:\\Temp\\hello-service.log',

	<NotepadPlus>
	<UserLang name="Groovy" ext="groovy" udlVersion="2.1">
	<Settings>
	<Global caseIgnored="no" />
	<Prefix Keywords1="no" Keywords2="no" Keywords3="no" Keywords4="no" />
	</Settings>
	<KeywordLists>
	<Keywords name="Comments">03/* 04*/ 00// 01 02</Keywords>
	<Keywords name="Keywords1">abstract break case catch continue default do else extends final finally for if implements instanceof native new private protected public return static switch synchronized throw throws transient try volatile while strictfp package import false null super this true</Keywords>
	<Keywords name="Keywords2">as assert def mixin property test using in it</Keywords>

	// XPath CheatSheet
	// To test XPath in your Chrome Debugger: $x('/html/body')
	// http://www.jittuu.com/2012/2/14/Testing-XPath-In-Chrome/


	// 0. XPath Examples.
	// More: http://xpath.alephzarro.com/content/cheatsheet.html


	'//hr[@class="edge" and position()=1]' // every first hr of 'edge' class