Share Code Tips

[David Hutto]

Just use an explanatory user tip that states it should be case sensitive,
just like with most sites, or apps.


On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Joel Goldstick
<joel.goldstick at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Devyn Collier Johnson <
> devyncjohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Aloha Python Users!
>>
>> I have some coding tips and interesting functions that I want to share
>> with all of you. I want to give other programmers ideas and inspiration. It
>> is all Python3; most of it should work in Python2. I am a Unix/Linux
>> person, so some of these will only work on Unix systems. Sorry Microsuck
>> users :-D ;-)
>>
>> All of the below Python3 code came from Neobot v0.8dev. I host an
>> artificial intelligence program on Launchpad (LP Username:
>> devyncjohnson-d). I have not released my Python version yet. The current
>> version of Neobot (v0.7a) is written in BASH and Python3.
>>
>> To emulate the Linux shell's date command, use this Python
>>
>> function def DATE(): print(time.strftime("%a %B %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y"))
>>
>> Want an easy way to clear the terminal screen? Then try this:
>>
>> def clr(): os.system(['clear','cls'][os.**name <http://os.name> == 'nt'])
>>
>> Here are two Linux-only functions:
>>
>> def GETRAM(): print(linecache.getline('/**proc/meminfo',
>> 1).replace('MemTotal:', '').strip()) #Get Total RAM in kilobytes#
>> def KDE_VERSION(): print(subprocess.getoutput('**kded4 --version | awk
>> -F: \'NR == 2 {print $2}\'').strip()) ##Get KDE version##
>>
>> Need a case-insensitive if-statement? Check this out:
>>
>> if 'YOUR_STRING'.lower() in SOMEVAR.lower():
>>
>> Have a Python XML browser and want to add awesome tags? This code would
>> see if the code to be parsed contains chess tags. If so, then they are
>> replaced with chess symbols. I know, many people hate trolls, but trolls
>> are my best friends. Try this:
>>
>> if '<chess_'.lower() in PTRNPRS.lower(): DATA =
>> re.sub('<chess_white_king/>', '♔', PTRNPRS, flags=re.I); DATA =
>> re.sub('<chess_white_queen/>', '♕', DATA, flags=re.I); DATA =
>> re.sub('<chess_white_castle/>'**, '♖', DATA, flags=re.I); DATA =
>> re.sub('<chess_white_bishop/>'**, '♗', DATA, flags=re.I); DATA =
>> re.sub('<chess_white_knight/>'**, '♘', DATA, flags=re.I); DATA =
>> re.sub('<chess_white_pawn/>', '♙', DATA, flags=re.I); DATA =
>> re.sub('<chess_black_king/>', '♚', DATA, flags=re.I); DATA =
>> re.sub('<chess_black_queen/>', '♛', DATA, flags=re.I); DATA =
>> re.sub('<chess_black_castle/>'**, '♜', DATA, flags=re.I); DATA =
>> re.sub('<chess_black_bishop/>'**, '♝', DATA, flags=re.I); DATA =
>> re.sub('<chess_black_knight/>'**, '♞', DATA, flags=re.I); PTRNPRS =
>> re.sub('<chess_black_pawn/>', '♟', DATA, flags=re.I)
>>
>> For those of you making scripts to be run in a terminal, try this for a
>> fancy terminal prompt:
>>
>> INPUTTEMP = input('User ≻≻≻')
>>
>>
>> I may share more code later. Tell me what you think of my coding style
>> and tips.
>>
>>
>> Mahalo,
>>
>> Devyn Collier Johnson
>> DevynCJohnson at Gmail.com
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>>
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> I'm guessing you may be posting with html.  So all your code runs together.
>
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Best Regards,
David Hutto
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