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Windowing an iterable with itertools

April 24th, 2010
Posted in General Programming . Python . Python Tips and Tricks

As any good python developer does, I make heavy use of python’s iterator protocol. It’s easy, it’s efficient, it’s a good thing. As you know, an iterator consumes an iterable piece by piece each time “next” is called — which means that the next value cannot be peeked without incrementing the iterator (thus consuming the [ READ MORE ]

The awesomest simple template – part deux

September 6th, 2009
Posted in Python . Python Tips and Tricks

Ok. So recently I posted some code for a simple templating utility that I wrote. I’ve done some refactoring and have an even cooler version. This version better extends the behavior of string.Template and I’ve found it to be far more intuitive to use. Without further ado: import string class SimpleTemplate(string.Template): """ [ READ MORE ]

The Simplest Template

August 23rd, 2009
Posted in Python . Python Tips and Tricks

Ready for the simplest templating utility ever? I was trying to prepare some JSON data stored in a tree and needed some simple code to generate templated text. Below is a wrapper for python’s string.Template class: import string class SimpleTemplate(string.Template): """ Takes a string template and a tuple or list of identifier names [ READ MORE ]

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