How to Add Additional Sub Directories to the Default Rails Test:Unit File Structure
# Edit Rakefile in project root
#
# Add a new rake test task... E.g., rake test:lib, below everything else in that file...
# Alternatively, add a task in lib/tasks/ directory and plop in the same code
namespace :test do
desc "Test lib source"
...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Trigrams, Bigrams and Ngrams in Python for Text Analysis
Creating trigrams in Python is very simple
trigrams = lambda a: zip(a, a[1:], a[2:])
trigrams(('a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f'))
# => [('a', 'b', 'c'), ('b', 'c', 'd'), ('c', 'd', 'e'), ('d', 'e', 'f')]
You can generalize this a little bit more
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Written by Sean Behan on 03/06/2017
Get Method Name as String in Python
Here is how to get the string representation of a method in Python
def my_method_name():
print "Hello World"
my_method_name.__name__
# => 'my_method_name'
Short and sweet!
Written by Sean Behan on 03/04/2017
How to Use the Ls Command on Linux or Mac OS X to Sort Files based on Second in the Timestamp
Here is the one liner.
ls -lhtTr
It will output something like
total 24152
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sean staff 1.0M May 4 14:31:42 2019 4c2caf52cb084ea39a6a65a0e68ee382
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sean staff 1.0M May 4 14:31:44 2019 76eeeea5d...
Written by Sean Behan on 05/04/2019
How to Create A Unix Timestamp or the Epoch in Python
It's a little convoluted. Seeing as it's a pretty common thing you use when programming computers one might think that there would be a quick and easy method for it. But from what I can tell there isn't. So here is a snippet that will give you a *nix Epoc...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/02/2013
