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webstandardcss / comprehensions.md
Created March 29, 2016 01:06 — forked from bearfrieze/comprehensions.md
Comprehensions in Python the Jedi way

Comprehensions in Python the Jedi way

Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit.

-- The Zen of Python

I frequently deal with collections of things in the programs I write. Collections of droids, jedis, planets, lightsabers, starfighters, etc. When programming in Python, these collections of things are usually represented as lists, sets and dictionaries. Oftentimes, what I want to do with collections is to transform them in various ways. Comprehensions is a powerful syntax for doing just that. I use them extensively, and it's one of the things that keep me coming back to Python. Let me show you a few examples of the incredible usefulness of comprehensions.

All of the tasks presented in the examples can be accomplished with the extensive standard library available in Python. These solutions would arguably be more terse and efficient in some cases. I don't have anything against the standard library. To me there is a certain

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webstandardcss / springer-free-maths-books.md
Created December 31, 2015 13:10 — forked from bishboria/springer-free-maths-books.md
Springer made a bunch of books available for free, these were the direct links
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webstandardcss / pedantically_commented_playbook.yml
Last active April 23, 2019 06:03 — forked from phred/pedantically_commented_playbook.yml
Insanely complete Ansible playbook, showing off all the options.
---
# ^^^ YAML documents must begin with the document separator "---"
#
#### Example docblock, I like to put a descriptive comment at the top of my
#### playbooks.
#
# Overview: Playbook to bootstrap a new host for configuration management.
# Applies to: production
# Description:
# Ensures that a host is configured for management with Ansible.
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webstandardcss / pedantically_commented_playbook.yml
Last active August 29, 2015 14:15 — forked from marktheunissen/pedantically_commented_playbook.yml
---
# ^^^ YAML documents must begin with the document separator "---"
#
#### Example docblock, I like to put a descriptive comment at the top of my
#### playbooks.
#
# Overview: Playbook to bootstrap a new host for configuration management.
# Applies to: production
# Description:
# Ensures that a host is configured for management with Ansible.
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webstandardcss / master.vim
Created January 25, 2014 07:38 — forked from gmccreight/master.vim
" copy all this into a vim buffer, save it, then...
" source the file by typing :so %
" Now the vim buffer acts like a specialized application for mastering vim
" There are two queues, Study and Known. Depending how confident you feel
" about the item you are currently learning, you can move it down several
" positions, all the way to the end of the Study queue, or to the Known
" queue.
" type ,, (that's comma comma)