To decorate an imported function in Python you would do something like this # in ./lib.py def function_name(): # function body And then in your program you could decorate it like this from lib import function_name function_name = decorat...

Here is how to get the string representation of a method in Python def my_method_name(): print "Hello World" my_method_name.__name__ # => 'my_method_name' Short and sweet!

Here is a quick and dirty way to destructure dictionaries in [Python] d = {'a':'Apple', 'b':'Banana','c':'Carrot'} a,b,c = [d[k] for k in ('a', 'b','c')] a == 'Apple' b == 'Banana' c == 'Carrot'

The first thing you'll need to do is enable the extension create extension "uuid-ossp"; To test that it's working select uuid_generate_v1(); For more info on which version of the algorithm you should use refer to the documentation. ...

If you run into authentication failure when trying to upload packages Submitting dist/ to https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/ Upload failed (403): Invalid or non-existent authentication information. error: Upload failed (403): Invalid or non-existent...

If you run into this error when trying to create a user in mysql, chances are you already have this user account created. create user 'someuser'@'localhost' identified by 'somepassword'; ERROR 1396 (HY000): Operation CREATE USER failed for 'someuser...

There are a few 3rd party modules that do this sort of thing. But there is a pretty solution using out of the box Python functionality. You don't have to install any dependencies if you use the `re` module. import re text = ' asdfladf ljklasfj 2324...

I wrote my first Python package over the weekend. It is a simple package that adds a basic blog API to an existing Flask application. It's called `command_line_blog` and is available [on Github](https://github.com/seanbehan/command_line_blog) and [on ...

The following code will disable SSL verification when using Open SSL. OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE It is probably not a good idea to do this in production. But if you are just testing on your development machine it might...

The `request.form` object is an immutable dictionary. An `ImmutableMultiDict` object to be exact. Immutable means that you cannot change its values. It's frozen. However, you might want to change the values. Say for instance, creating a slug from a ti...