Tom

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How to convert local time string to UTC?

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How do I write a bash script to restart a process if it dies?

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How do I filter ForeignKey choices in a Django ModelForm?

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How to escape os.system() calls?

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How do I make ctrl-arrow keys move forward/backward a word at a time in Cygwin bash?

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How do I detect if a user has got to a page using the back button?

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How do I get the UTC time of "midnight" for a given timezone?

python datetime timezone utc pytz asked Dec 17, 2008 at 1:11

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How do I use subprocess.Popen to connect multiple processes by pipes?

python pipes subprocess asked Nov 17, 2008 at 12:17

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What are the options for overriding Django's cascading delete behaviour?

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What's the best way to find the inverse of datetime.isocalendar()?

python datetime asked Nov 20, 2008 at 3:38

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How to convert local time string to UTC?

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How do I set permissions (attributes) on a file in a ZIP file using Python's zipfile module?

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Mock Python's built in print function

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Is there an inverse function for time.gmtime() that parses a UTC tuple to seconds since the epoch?

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What is the regex pattern for datetime (2008-09-01 12:35:45 )?

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How to get an absolute file path in Python

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django blocktrans and i18n in templates

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git difftool, open all diff files immediately, not in serial

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How do I prompt a user for confirmation in bash script?

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How do I reply to an email using the Python imaplib and include the original message?

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Emacs: How do I set flycheck to Python 3?

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subselect vs outer join

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jQuery event for images loaded

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Python correctness (i.e., lint) analyzing for Notepad++

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git grep--but restricted to new or modified files in the index

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Getting color of a data series from a flot chart

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how to remove smart quotes in copy/paste?

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Close Bootstrap Dropdown after link click

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How to run spell check on multiple files and display any incorrect words in shell script?

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django dateTimeWidget not showing up

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How to make font that clearly distinct "b" and "d" without sacrificing legibility

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How to install Ruby on Rails 3.0 on Ubuntu 10.10?

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Enum flags over 2^32

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What are the data structures behind a spreadsheet?

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