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The Best of the Best Practices (BOBP) Guide for Python

A "Best of the Best Practices" (BOBP) guide to developing in Python.

In General

Values

"Build tools for others that you want to be built for you." - Kenneth Reitz
"Simplicity is alway better than functionality." - Pieter Hintjens

I get asked by people wanting to visit Iceland what they should do while they're there. Rather than re-type (and mostly forget) the whole thing I just give them a link to this.

Stuff that isn't this guide

...as if you didn't know how to use Google.

I'm partial to The Lonely Planet guides whenever I visit other places. I haven't checked the one for Iceland but it's probably

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

	http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
	http://www.infoq.com/presentations/integration-tests-scam
	http://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/2010/09/14/when-is-it-safe-to-introduce-test-doubles
	http://youtu.be/yTkzNHF6rMs
	http://pyvideo.org/video/1670/boundaries
	http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/ajax-ria/enumerators
	http://alistair.cockburn.us/Hexagonal+architecture
	http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PortsAndAdaptersArchitecture
	http://www.confreaks.com/videos/977-goruco2012-hexagonal-rails
	http://www.confreaks.com/videos/1255-rockymtnruby2012-to-mock-or-not-to-mock

	# RUN ME, I am the worker!
	# $ pip install fabric celery-with-redis
	# $ celery -A tasks worker -E --loglevel=debug
	from celery import Celery
	from time import sleep
	from fabric.api import env, run, execute
	import sys

	celery = Celery('tasks', broker='redis://', backend='redis://')

	connection cloudmqtt
	try_private false
	address broker.cloudmqtt.com:<port>
	start_type automatic
	username <your_username_here>
	password <your_password_here>
	clientid <any_clientid_here>
	notifications true

	def verify_sign(public_key_loc, signature, data):
	'''
	Verifies with a public key from whom the data came that it was indeed
	signed by their private key
	param: public_key_loc Path to public key
	param: signature String signature to be verified
	return: Boolean. True if the signature is valid; False otherwise.
	'''
	from Crypto.PublicKey import RSA
	from Crypto.Signature import PKCS1_v1_5

	"""
	required packages:
	numpy
	matplotlib
	basemap: http://matplotlib.org/basemap/users/installing.html
	shapely: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Shapely
	descartes: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/descartes
	random

	from UserDict import IterableUserDict
	import collections


	__author__ = 'github.com/hangtwenty'


	def tupperware(mapping):
	""" Convert mappings to 'tupperwares' recursively.

	#include "FlyCapture2.h"

	#include <opencv2/core/core.hpp>
	#include <opencv2/highgui/highgui.hpp>

	#include <iostream>

	using namespace FlyCapture2;

	int main()