Top-rated recipes by Karl Dickman http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172760/top/2010-01-09T22:46:42-08:00ActiveState Code RecipesTwo-finger iterator (Python)
2010-01-09T15:06:51-08:00Karl Dickmanhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172760/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576997-two-finger-iterator/
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Python
recipe 576997
by <a href="/recipes/users/4172760/">Karl Dickman</a>
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<p>Sometimes it's useful to iterate through a series of items, looking at an item and the next one.</p>
RFC 822-style parser (Python)
2010-01-09T22:46:42-08:00Karl Dickmanhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172760/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576996-rfc-822-style-parser/
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Python
recipe 576996
by <a href="/recipes/users/4172760/">Karl Dickman</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/data/">data</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/formats/">formats</a>).
Revision 7.
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<p>In <em>The Art of Unix Programming</em>, Eric S. Raymond describes a data file metaformat based on RFC 822. [http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch05s02.html#id2902039] This is a simple parser for that format.</p>