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• high-performance currying with instancemethod

  Python / algorithms / by Alex Martelli (6 years, 1 month ago)
• Singleton? We don't need no stinkin' singleton: the Borg design pattern

  Python / oop / 4 points (8 votes) / by Alex Martelli (8 years, 3 months ago, revision 2)
• IP address conversion functions with the builtin socket module

  Python / network / 1 point (1 vote) / by Alex Martelli (8 years, 3 months ago)
• Add an entry to a dictionary, unless the entry is already there

  Python / shortcuts / 1 point (1 vote) / by Alex Martelli (8 years, 3 months ago, revision 2)
• A simple extension type for Python

  Python / extending / 1 point (1 vote) / by Alex Martelli (8 years, 3 months ago, revision 2)
• Fast copy of an object having a slow __init__

  Python / oop / by Alex Martelli (8 years, 3 months ago)
• Reading Lines with Continuation Characters

  Python / files / by Alex Martelli (8 years, 4 months ago)
• Read a text file by-paragraph

  Python / files / by Alex Martelli (8 years, 3 months ago, revision 2)
• Determining Current Function Name

  Python / no tags / 4 points (4 votes) / by Alex Martelli (8 years, 4 months ago)
• Assign and test

  Python / no tags / by Alex Martelli (8 years, 4 months ago)
• Expanding and Compressing Tabs

  Python / text / by Alex Martelli (8 years, 5 months ago, revision 2)
• Reversing a String by Words or Characters

  Python / text / 1 point (1 vote) / by Alex Martelli (8 years, 5 months ago)
• Accessing Substrings

  Python / text / 1 point (1 vote) / by Alex Martelli (8 years, 5 months ago)
• Constants in Python

  Python / oop / 1 point (3 votes) / by Alex Martelli (8 years, 3 months ago, revision 2)
• "conditionals" in expressions

  Python / algorithms / by Alex Martelli (8 years, 7 months ago, revision 2)
• To 'return None' from your Python-callable C function

  Python / extending / by Alex Martelli (8 years, 8 months ago)
• The simple but handy "collector of a bunch of named stuff" class

  Python / oop / 4 points (4 votes) / by Alex Martelli (8 years, 7 months ago, revision 2)
• "To sort a dictionary"

  Python / search / 2 points (2 votes) / by Alex Martelli (8 years, 7 months ago, revision 2)
• Yet Another Python Templating Utility (YAPTU)

  Python / text / 2 points (2 votes) / by Alex Martelli (8 years, 2 months ago, revision 6)
• "Static-methods" (aka "class-methods") in Python

  Python / oop / 3 points (3 votes) / by Alex Martelli (8 years, 5 months ago, revision 3)
• The Auxiliary-Dictionary idiom for sequences with frequent 'in' tests

  Python / search / by Alex Martelli (8 years, 7 months ago, revision 2)
• Automatic delegation as an alternative to inheritance

  Python / oop / by Alex Martelli (8 years, 7 months ago, revision 2)
• Accurate "Look before you leap" for safer (but still full) polymorphism

  Python / oop / by Alex Martelli (8 years, 8 months ago)
• various idioms for "call my superclass's __init__ IF it has one"

  Python / oop / 1 point (1 vote) / by Alex Martelli (8 years, 7 months ago, revision 2)
• Parallel loop on index and sequence-item

  Python / no tags / 1 point (1 vote) / by Alex Martelli (8 years, 4 months ago, revision 3)
• guaranteed-stable sort with the decorate-sort-undecorate idiom (aka Schwartzian transform)

  Python / search / by Alex Martelli (8 years, 5 months ago, revision 2)
• calling a superclass's implementation of a method

  Python / oop / by Alex Martelli (8 years, 8 months ago)

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