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The ternary operator of C is one of my favorite operators, it may be hard to read at times, but oh so useful.

(a ? b : c)

In python you can do this in three ways, the third way is only available in python 2.5 and up. It is essentially a ternary operator and doesn’t require [...]

My favorite passwordless ssh tutorial went offline, so here is my rehash of it.
Your server names will, of course, vary. Localhost is the machine you are currently on and, in my case, northisup.com is the server I’m SSHing into.

localhost$ ssh-keygen -t dsa
localhost$ cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | \
ssh northisup.com 'cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys; \
chmod [...]

So I was hacking away at a turbogears project and thought ‘how cool would it be to visualize this?’ That thought lead to a short example of how to get the graphing visualization from google finance into your app. I used cherrypy to do the web serving for the example. Code after the break (sorry [...]

Over the past few months I have developed several patterns in the tools that I develop.
1) I like command line options.
2) I like to be able to run other command line programs and parse the output
Code after the break.