Python 3 non consistent set & dict iteration gotcha

Mon 08 December 2014

Consider the following Python expression: print("".join(set("ABCDE"))) What do you think it produces ? Not necessarily "ABCDE". Right, but you would expect the result to be consistent, isn't it ? $ for i in {1..3}; do python2.7 -c 'print("".join(set("ABCDE")))'; done ACBED ACBED ACBED Great ! ... But with …

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• lang:en
• python
• dict
• security
• perl
• hash
• iteration
• gotcha
• backward-compatibility
• set
• ministat
• csvstat
• prog

Web scraping with Scrapy

Tue 09 September 2014

As a tabletop RPG game master, whenever I need to imagine a universe background for a scenario, I need illustrations to picture myself the atmosphere, and get some inspiration. I usually simply surf the web from blog to blog, or spend some time on inspirational websites like DeviantArt, Tumblr, Unurth …

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• lang:en
• grep
• scrapy
• python
• web-scraping
• rpg
• image-processing
• goblin
• dict
• wget
• prog