Bite Code @bitecode@framapiaf.org

So Google just asked me to prove my age to watch a youtube vid by either providing my credit car or my identity card.
Well, nope, nope, nope.

Can you guess what it does ?

It's for when I want to see what's in a generator, but I'm too lazy to go back to the begining of the line and do "list(gen)", so I have this trick to be able to do "gen /l".

Personally I have some dirty hacks in my PYTHONSTARTUP:

class L(list):
def __truediv__(self, other):
return list(other)
def __rtruediv__(self, other):
return list(other)
def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
return list(*args, **kwargs)
l = L()

And so much more. You can customize your whole Python shell experience, tailored to your daily needs!

try:
import readline
readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")
except ImportError:
pass

Enable tab completion in the regular python shell.

from __future__ import print_function

If you are stuck in python 2, use print_function anyway

try:
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
except ImportError:
pass

If pandas and numpy are installed, import them

TEMP_DIR = Path(tempfile.gettempdir()) / "pythontemp")
try:
os.makedirs(TEMP_DIR)
except Exception as e:
pass

Always have a ready to use temporary directory

try:
from IPython import get_ipython
get_ipython().magic("%load_ext ipython_autoimport")
except:
pass

Try to trigger ipython auto import if it's installed

null = None
true = True
false = False

So that you can copy/paste JSON and get Python automatically.

Some stuff you can do:

from datetime import datetime, date, timedelta
def now():
return http://datetime.now()
def today():
return http://date.today()

So you always have the current date and time at your fingertip.

For Windows, type in a terminal:

setx PYTHONSTARTUP c:\path\to\a\http://script.py

For Linux, put in your .bashrc:

export PYTHONSTARTUP=/path/to/a/script.py

Reboot, and voilà, http://script.py runs at the start of any #python shell. Put what you want in it!

I know, I know, I'm repeating myself, but if you are not using PYTHONSTARTUP, you are missing out.

It lets you run code anytime a shell starts.

E.G: doing maths in a shell or notebook all the time ? Use PYTHONSTARTUP to get an automatic "from math import *"!

It's easy:

Always get the python interpreter with the highest version on linux:

LASTEST_PYTHON=$(ls /usr/bin/python3.* | egrep -v "config|m$" | tail -n 1)

alias py=$LASTEST_PYTHON

$ python3.9 -m pip install pyzmq
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable

Ohhhh, I like that!

No more --user!