Does this return all the data?
urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
The answer appears to be "not always".
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7174927/when-does-socket-recvrecv-size-return https://github.com/CVL-dev/feedparser/issues/1
I can't seem to get a definitive answer here, nor a reproducible demonstration of it failing.
Does anybody know for …
Some notes on my emacs setup circa 2015, mostly about Python.
For the latest, see more recent posts tagged emacs and/or my emacs config repo
There is python-mode.el, and python.el. I have settled on python-mode from the elpa repositories.
Why? The built-in python.el …
So it turns out there are some painful edges if you start trying to do SQLAlchemy declarative ORM classes in an existing Django app. (For example, if you're gradually replacing the Django ORM in your code with Sqlalchemy ORM). It boils down to:
The django testrunner (or django-nose) changes the …
TL;DR graphite graphs look wrong when viewing a time period larger than a few
hours. hitcount is the cure.
It turns out counters are bucketed as hits per time slice, not as permanently
incrementing numbers.
https://code.hootsuite.com/accurate-counting-with-graphite-and-statsd/ helps a
lot to explain how this works.
For …
Here's a typical loop that checks for some condition and breaks the first time it passes:
def list_contains_urls(maybe_urls):
for url in maybe_urls:
if url.startswith('http'):
return True
return False
Can we do that more concisely? Sure.
def list_contains_urls(maybe_urls):
return any(u for u in maybe_urls if u …How to create a brand new git repository from an existing hg repository. This is not explained on https://hg-git.github.com/
easy_install hg-git
# Now edit your ~/.hgrc as per https://hg-git.github.com/
# Now make a bare git repository. Yes, bare.
git init --bare ~/my-git-repo # the --bare is important …