... @NeilG This unfortunately includes the JSONEncoder in the python standard library - github.com/python-git/python/blob/… – Andy Smith Oct 24 '14 at 14:21 ...

Does Python have a function that I can use to escape special characters in a regular expression? 6 Answers ...

... What is the best way to implement nested dictionaries in Python? This is a bad idea, don't do it. Instead, use a regular dictionary and use dict.setdefault where apropos, so when keys are missing under normal usage you get the expected KeyError. If you insist on getting this behav...

... @Hannes At least in python 3, BaseTest can be referenced through super(self.__class__, self) or just super() in the subclasses, although apparently not if you were to inherit constructors. Maybe there is also such an "anonymous" alternative when...

...read here doesn't make sense, it's because I just edited the answer to use Python's functools.partial instead of Django's django.utils.functional.curry. They do the same thing, except that functools.partial returns a distinct callable type instead of a regular Python function, and the partial type d...

Tested on Python 2.6 interpreter: 12 Answers 12 ...

... will be automatically closed. You can read more about context-managers in Python here: effbot.org/zone/python-with-statement.htm – Vlad H Jan 26 '11 at 11:49 1 ...

...ason -- see below). It is mainly there for historical reasons, i think. In Python 3 it is completely gone. unicode().decode() will perform an implicit encoding of s using the default (ascii) codec. Verify this like so: >>> s = u'ö' >>> s.decode() Traceback (most recent call last...

Python: How to get the caller's method name in the called method? 8 Answers 8 ...

...ace the get_data method with a stub that returns some fixed data. Because Python classes are mutable, and methods are just attributes of the class, you can do this as much as you like - and, in fact, you can even replace classes and functions in a module in exactly the same way. But, as a commente...