#Python decimal module is cool, but be careful to use strings for initialization, or you might not get what you want:

>>> Decimal(1.5)
Decimal('1.5')
>>> Decimal(1.6)
Decimal('1.600000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
>>> Decimal('1.6')
Decimal('1.6')

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#Python decimal module is cool, but be careful to use strings for initialization, or you might not get what you want:

>>> Decimal(1.5)
Decimal('1.5')
>>> Decimal(1.6)
Decimal('1.600000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
>>> Decimal('1.6')
Decimal('1.6')

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Do you know that `0` when passed to `open` function is a shortcut to open stdin stream input in #python?

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pydoc3 builtins

A short screencast showing how to use the command `pydoc3` to access the Python documentation in the terminal on a Linux based operating system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUxRyur1vBg

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Get key with minimum value in a dict:

>>> d = {'a':11, 'b':2, 'c':14, 'd':2}
>>> min(d, key=d.get)
'b'

>>> min_value = min(d.values())
>>> [k for k, v in d.items() if v==min_value]
['b', 'd']

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If you want to get multiple items from a dictionary, you might either use a list comprehension

>>> [mydict[x] for x in mykeys]

or you can use `operator.itemgetter` as follows

>>> from operator import itemgetter
>>> itemgetter(*mykeys)(mydict)

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Use beautiful_date when need to create date/datetime objects in a simple way.

pip install beautiful-date

from beautiful_date import *

>>> d = 5/Mar/2019
BeautifulDate(2019, 3, 5)

>>> d[4:13]
datetime.datetime(2019, 3, 5, 4, 13)

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