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Python cheat sheet

pickle:
  cPickle.dump (object, open (fname, 'wb'), 1)
  object = load (open (fname, 'wb'))

date format:
  time.strftime ("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", time.localtime (time.time ()))

cStringIO:
  buffer.getvalue ()

tempfile:
  import tempfile
  var = tempfile.mktemp () # deprecated

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