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# export2csv.py
#
# export random database stuff to csv

from __future__ import with_statement
import csv

def export2csv(cursor, outf):
    """
    cursor should have an executed query already

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import os
import contextmanager

@contextlib.contextmanager
def have_pidfile(fname):
    f = open(fname, 'w')
    f.write('%d\n' % os.getpid())
    f.flush()
    s = os.fstat(f.fileno())
    dev, ino = s.st_dev, s.st_ino

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import socket
from subprocess import check_output
from sys import stdout
from os import getpid

def info_about_socket(s, out=stdout):
    """
    Write some information about the status and state of a socket object
    to the file-like object 'out' (stdout, by default).

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awk '{x[$1]=x[$1]?(x[$1] VSEP OFS $2):$2}END{for(e in x){print e,x[e]}}' VSEP=,

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# ParallelBatcher.py
#
# Job pipeline for Twisted Matrix
# the paul 2011
#
# Sort of goes between defer.DeferredList and plain Deferred chaining.
# When you have lots of jobs to do which take time (most likely because
# they have to wait on some network action) but you don't want to do
# them all at the same time (maybe the remote network action is CPU- or
# bandwidth-intensive and you want to avoid overloading the remote

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# Copyright (c) 2001-2010 Twisted Matrix Laboratories.
# See LICENSE for details.

import traceback
import warnings
from sys import exc_info

# Twisted imports
from twisted.python import failure, lockfile
from twisted.python.util import mergeFunctionMetadata

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[alias]
        xlog = log --graph --pretty=format:\"%C(yellow)%h%Creset %ad  %s%C(cyan)%d%Creset %C(green)[%an]%Creset\" --date=short

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import re

backslash_shell_quote_re = re.compile(r'([^A-Za-z0-9_.,:/])')
def shell_escape(s, flavor='sh'):
    """
    Escape a random string (s) so that it reads as a single word when
    undergoing shell command-line parsing.

    The default flavor should be safe for all mainstream shells I know
    about, but there are some other escaping modes which may result in

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changelog_from_deb () {
    # won't work when packages symlink their docs from another package from the same source;
    # you'll get "No changelog found."

    t="$(mktemp -d)"
    p="$(dpkg-deb -f "$1" Package)"
    fail=1
    dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile "$1" | \
        tar -x --wildcards -C $t ./usr/share/doc/"$p"/changelog\* 2>/dev/null
    for f in changelog.Debian.gz changelog.gz; do

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def center(text, width):
    if len(text) < width:
        diff = width - len(text)
        pad = ' ' * (diff / 2)
        text = pad + text + pad
        if diff % 2:
            text += ' '
    return text

def print_table(fieldnames, table, outstream=None):