Today, while trying to get a particular regular expression to work I found an online tool to help me out.  What is particularly nice about this tool is that you can try multiple strings at a time against your regular expression.  Go check it out: http://www.fileformat.info/tool/regex.htm. Link Summary http://www.fileformat.info/tool/regex.htm

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Lately I’ve been working on resurrecting a project, called Kollektor, that I have on SourceForge. Kollektor is a personal book collection manager that can fetch information from Amazon. It’s been a few years since I worked on it and in the mean time the Amazon interface has changed significantly. A couple days ago I also [...]

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As far as I know there is no official way to clone a list in Python. This is desirable at times because normal variable assignment of lists is just a reference copy. For example:   >>> listA = [’A', ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’] >>> listB = listA >>> listA [’A', ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’] >>> listB [’A', [...]

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Linux has many amazing programs that can be chained together to produce amazing results. Today I needed to turn a multi-line file into a CSV (comma separated) file. In Linux this is super easy: cat file | tr ‘\n’ ‘,’ Basically, this will turn a file like this: Line1 Line2 Line3 Line4 Into this: Line1,Line2,Line3,Line4

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