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ASKpy - Collect Input from your Users

ASKpy is a module which makes collecting Raw Input for your Python program more robust. It supports creating prompts, conditional questions, validation, and transforming responses.

Installation

Installing ASKpy is as simple as:

What this is

This is how we prefer to setup our environments at CodeZeus for Python and Django development. It uses virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper to contain dependencies and make the workflow more automatic.

Transforming Code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python

Notes from Raymond Hettinger's talk at pycon US 2013 video, slides.

The code examples and direct quotes are all from Raymond's talk. I've reproduced them here for my own edification and the hopes that others will find them as handy as I have!

Looping over a range of numbers

for i in [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]:

	/*
	Given a string "s1"

	eg. ABKHJDLNCMLNCKS

	and another string with a length equal to or less than s1, called "s2"

	eg. AKHJDMNS

	write a function that determines whether the characters in s2 are a subset of

	from itertools import cycle

	ALPHA = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'


	def encrypt(key, plaintext):
	"""Encrypt the string and return the ciphertext"""
	pairs = zip(plaintext, cycle(key))
	result = ''

	import $ from 'jquery';

	import join from 'lodash/join';
	import slice from 'lodash/slice';
	import isNil from 'lodash/isNil';

	/**
	* Mutate the contents of an HTML node if it is not within the bounds of a
	* parent node by truncating the output.
	*


	`````
	````.:::;,```
	```.,,,:'''';;.`` `
	```.;;,,,:,,:+#+,.``
	```#+;::,.``.,::''::```
	````:';;:;,``..``.,,;+,`.`
	.` `,:'#':..``...,,.,;;,`. `
	`.```.,';;```.:...,;';''''.``
	``````,:,``,::..`...,;;:;#+`.`

	#!/bin/sh

	command="${*}"
	printf "Initialized REPL for [%s]\n" "$command"
	printf "%s> " "$command"
	read -r input
	while [ "$input" != "" ];
	do
	eval "$command $input"
	printf "\n%s> " "$command"

	PLAY [all] *********************************************************************

	TASK [core : Install packages] *************************************************
	failed: [default] (item=[u'language-pack-en', u'build-essential', u'zip', u'redis-server', u'npm', u'nodejs-legacy', u'libssl-dev', u'openssl', u'python-setuptools', u'mysql-server-5.6', u'nginx', u'php5-cli', u'php5-fpm', u'php5-gd', u'php5-mcrypt', u'php5-imap', u'php5-mysql', u'php5-curl', u'php5-json', u'php5-xdebug', u'php5-redis', u'php5-intl', u'ruby', u'ruby-dev', u'libsqlite3-dev', u'rubygems', u'bundler', u'curl', u'git', u'swaks']) => {"failed": true, "item": ["language-pack-en", "build-essential", "zip", "redis-server", "npm", "nodejs-legacy", "libssl-dev", "openssl", "python-setuptools", "mysql-server-5.6", "nginx", "php5-cli", "php5-fpm", "php5-gd", "php5-mcrypt", "php5-imap", "php5-mysql", "php5-curl", "php5-json", "php5-xdebug", "php5-redis", "php5-intl", "ruby", "ruby-dev", "libsqlite3-dev", "rubygems", "bundler", "curl", "git", "sw