Python Notes Revision as of Monday, 21 December 2015 at 02:30 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

Check dictionary for multiple keys

if not all([key in dictionary for key in ['key1','key2','key3']]):
    raise Exception('Missing keys, yo')

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']