A nice way to auto-indent your XML documents is via the free editor Notepad++. Load your XML document, then navigate the menu TextFX -> TextFX HTML Tidy -> Tidy: Reindent XML The preconfigu...

Today, I tried to build a dictionary which contains the contents of a list as keys and empty dictionarys as values. First, I went with the method dict.fromkeys(seq, [value]), then I filled the sub-...

Python comes with a nice tool called easy_install that enables you to install additional packages as easy as: easy_install <package_name> If you are behind a HTTP proxy server, this might f...

This blog shall serve as my personal cue card collection for solutions I came up with in my daily work as a programmer. Since information is there to be shared, I decided to make this collection pu...