Python Notes Revision as of Sunday, 20 December 2015 at 19:56 UTC
Miscellaneous
Custom CA Bundle with requests
Set this environment variable and request away as usual:
export REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE="/path/to/ca-bundle.pem"
Tricks
Test SMTP Server
sudo python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:25
Singular & Plural
# Simple
print "This took %d day%s" % (days, "s"[days==1:])
# Tough
n = 1
print "I see %d %s" % (n, ['octopus', 'octopuses'][n!=1])
Path to site-packages
import site; site.getsitepackages()
['/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages']