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# lua script to download files
args = {...}
url = args[1]
outfile = args[2]
resp, err = http.get(url)
f = io.open(outfile, "w")
f:write(resp.readAll())
f:close()
resp.close()

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@celery.task
def process_list_of_things(things):
    try:
        for i in range(min(20, len(things))):
            thing = things.pop()
            process_thing(thing)
    except SoftTimeLimitExceeded:
        things.append(thing)
    if things:
        process_list_of_things.delay(things)

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# pipe any json into the command to the right of the pipe to format any valid json payload
echo '{"foo": "bar"}' | python -c "import sys, json;print json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), indent=4)"
# use the built-in tool to do the exact same thing
echo '{"foo": "bar"}' | python -m json.tool

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# borrowed from https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ansible-project/V1PoNJcXV_w
import ansible.runner
import ansible.playbook
from ansible import callbacks
from ansible import utils

stats = callbacks.AggregateStats()
playbook_cb = callbacks.PlaybookCallbacks(verbose=utils.VERBOSITY)
runner_cb = callbacks.PlaybookRunnerCallbacks(stats, verbose=utils.VERBOSITY)

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#!/usr/bin/python
import psutil
import time

times = 0
while True:
  time.sleep(1)
  lst = psutil.get_process_list()
  for p in lst:
    if p.name == "iTunes":

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def segment_items(items, max_count_per_segment):
    result = []
    index = 0
    while index < len(items):
        segment = []
        segment_index = 0
        while segment_index < max_count_per_segment and index < len(items):
            item = items[index]
            segment.append(item)
            segment_index += 1

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import random

sieve_scan_top = 0
sieve = {}

def generate_sieve(top):
  global sieve_scan_top
	global sieve
	if top > sieve_scan_top:
		sieve_scan_top = top