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MySQL Show or Desc(ribe) All Tables at Once

By admin | Published: January 23, 2011
I was recently getting up to speed on a few new applications and needed to understand the database schema. I found myself repeatedly using the MySQL show tables and desc tables command line queries. After doing this a few times I got a little frustrated so I wrote this handy little shell script [...]
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BeautifulSoup Demo - screen scraping quickly with Python

By admin | Published: December 26, 2009
From the BeautifulSoup website: Beautiful Soup is a Python HTML/XML parser designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping. Three features make it powerful: 1. Beautiful Soup won’t choke if you give it bad markup. It yields a parse tree that makes approximately as much sense as your original document. This is usually good enough [...]
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