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By David Isaacson
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Snippets from the excellent book Dive Into Python by Mark Pilgrim.

For more information, visit http://www.diveintopython.org

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Python Tips, Tricks, and Hacks about Python Add filter
Want to write shorter, cleaner code? Have an unfortunate situation where you need to fit as much as you can in one expression? Prefer a quick dose of hacks to spending the rest of your life...
License CC Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 3.0-US Add filter Group Owner iCapsid Add filter Rating +14 Comments 11 Keywords classes Add filter   decorators Add filter   dictionaries Add filter   dictionary comprehensions Add filter   filter Add filter   functions Add filter   generator expressions Add filter   iterate Add filter   lambda functions Add filter   list comprehensions Add filter   list operators Add filter   map Add filter   python Add filter   quotes Add filter   reduce Add filter   strings Add filter   substrings Add filter   switch statements Add filter   tips Add filter   tricks Add filter   truthfulness Add filter   zip Add filter  
Convert Text to *Pig Latin* in Python Add filter
Converts words to pig-latin! Also there is some cool regex magic.
License Python 2.x (PSF) Add filter Rating +1 Keywords convert Add filter   pig latin Add filter  
Get a List of URLs from a Web Page in Python Add filter
Use the SGMLParser to retrieve a list of URLs from a web page.
License Python 2.x (PSF) Add filter Comments 2 Keywords SGMLParser Add filter   url Add filter   web page Add filter  
Convert Strings to Soundex Equivalents in Python Add filter
Converts strings to their soundex equivalent. Soundex is a phonetic algorithm for indexing names by sound in English. This allows similarly-pronounced but differently-spelled words to be matched....
License Python 2.x (PSF) Add filter Comments 1 Keywords convert Add filter   soundex Add filter   string Add filter  
Convert Integers To and From Roman Numerals in Python Add filter
Call toRoman() to convert an integer to a roman numeral, or fromRoman() to convert a roman numeral to an integer....
License Python 2.x (PSF) Add filter Keywords convert Add filter   integer Add filter   roman numeral Add filter   unittest Add filter  
Open Any Input Source as a File-like Object in Python Add filter
Lets you take any input source -- URL, local pathname, network pathname, string -- and deal with it in a uniform manner. The returned object is guaranteed to have all the basic stdio read methods...
License Python 2.x (PSF) Add filter Keywords ETag Add filter   file Add filter   file-like object Add filter   headers Add filter   Last-Modified Add filter   metadata Add filter   open Add filter   read Add filter   string Add filter   url Add filter  
Fibonacci Sequence Generator in Python Add filter
Renders Fibonacci sequences, up to a given maximum value, using a generator function.
License Python 2.x (PSF) Add filter Keywords Fibonacci sequence Add filter   generator Add filter  
Generate Mock Philosophy with a Context-Free Grammar in Python Add filter
Generates random philosophies based on the works of Kant and Husserl, thank you notes, and more using a context-free grammar....
License Python 2.x (PSF) Add filter Keywords grammar Add filter   philosophy Add filter   random Add filter   thank-you note Add filter  
HTML Processing Module in Python Add filter
A base class for an HTML processing module. Designed to take HTML as input and to output equivalent HTML....
License Python 2.x (PSF) Add filter Keywords HTML Add filter  
Framework to get Filetype-Specific Metadata -- Including ID3 Tags in Python Add filter
Provides a framework to get filetype-specific metadata. Included is an example to parse ID3 tags (version 1) from MP3 files....
License Python 2.x (PSF) Add filter Keywords id3 tags Add filter   metadata Add filter   mp3 Add filter   parse Add filter  
Pluralize Nouns in Python Add filter
Easily and correctly pluralize most English nouns....
License Python 2.x (PSF) Add filter Keywords pluralize Add filter  
Parse U.S. Phone Numbers in Python Add filter
Pass a phone number to parsePhoneNumber, it will return a tuple of (Area Code, 3-Digit Trunk, 4-Digit Number, Extension).
License Python 2.x (PSF) Add filter