Rob Wells

London, United Kingdom

http://www.linkedin.com/in/robwells57

An Aussie currently located in Maidenhead in the UK. I'm proud to have lived and worked in France, Germany, Ireland, Norway and Australia.

Currently working on developing for and supporting the platform for a really big media website.

A really, really big website!

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Is there a Python equivalent to Perl's Data::Dumper for inspecting data structures?

python module object-dumper asked Mar 29, 2010 at 19:09

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37 votes

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22 votes

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14 votes

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9 votes

Is it a convention to avoid using $_ when using other people's Perl API's?

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8 votes

Should you check the return code from Getopt::Long::GetOptions?

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