Is there a nice easy way to drop all tables from a MySQL database, ignoring any foreign key constraints that may be in there? ...

...th the Temperature class). For example: temp=Temperature() temp.celsius #calls celsius.__get__ Accessing the property you assigned the descriptor to (celsius in the above example) calls the appropriate descriptor method. instance in __get__ is the instance of the class (so above, __get__ would r...

...e used if you want to ensure the compiler doesn't quietly optimize-away a call to "scrub" memory for some security-related purpose (such as blanking-out a region of memory that contained a sensitive piece of information such as a cleartext password). – Christopher Schultz ...

... amazed that there IS such a built-in solution in heapq. But then it is totally unreasonable that it is NOT even slightly mentioned at all in the official document! WTF! – RayLuo Apr 21 '15 at 6:48 ...

... Generally RuntimeExceptions are exceptions that can be prevented programmatically. E.g NullPointerException, ArrayIndexOutOfBoundException. If you check for null before calling any method, NullPointerException would never occur. ...

...< 3.x The most important part, however, is that these methods can be called through an association (has_many, etc.) to automatically link the two models. share | improve this answer | ...

...e, but this can be overcome by using JSON.stringify and JSON.parse. Technically, whenever you call .setItem(), it will call .toString() on the value and store that. MDN's DOM storage guide (linked below), has workarounds/polyfills, that end up falling back to stuff like cookies, if localStorage isn...

...n test algorithms. Download Dreadnought 1.2. Strategies: keep track of all possible positions for ships that have >0 hits. The list never gets bigger than ~30K so it can be kept exactly, unlike the list of all possible positions for all ships (which is very large). The GetShot algorithm has ...

... datamap = eval(raw_input('Provide some data here: ')) means that you actually evaluate the code before you deem it to be unsafe or not. It evaluates the code as soon as the function is called. See also the dangers of eval. ast.literal_eval raises an exception if the input isn't a valid Python dat...

... not determine what package Python thinks it is in. That depends, additionally, on how you load the file into Python (by running or by importing). There are two ways to load a Python file: as the top-level script, or as a module. A file is loaded as the top-level script if you execute it directl...