>>> import this
The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters

Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than *right* now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!
>>> 

# method 1
class X(object):
    a = 1

# method 2
X = type('X', (object,), dict(a=1))

# format % 2
%d     : '2'
%5d    : '    2'
%-5d   : '2    '
%05d   : '00002'
%.2e   : '2.00e+000'
%.2f   : '2.00'

%s     : string, applying str()
%-20s  : left-adjust

>>> a = [5, 2, 3, 1, 4]
>>> a.sort()    # become [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>>> a.sort(cmp) # same as above

>>> a = "This is a test string from Andrew".split()
>>> a.sort(key=str.lower) # using key is simpler
# ['a', 'Andrew', 'from', 'is', 'string', 'test', 'This']

>>> import operator 
>>> L = [('c', 2), ('d', 1), ('a', 4), ('b', 3)]
>>> sorted(L, key=operator.itemgetter(1))
[('d', 1), ('c', 2), ('b', 3), ('a', 4)]
# itemgetter allows easy Schwartzian transform

>>> cb = HtmlClipboard()
>>> cb.GetAvailableFormats()
[49161, 49562, 49339, 49560, 49561, 13, 1, 49334, 49335, 49333, 49344, 49478, 49171, 16, 7]
>>> cb.HasHtmlFormat()
True
>>> cb.GetFromClipboard()
>>> cb.htmlClipboardVersion
'0.9'
>>> cb.GetFragment()
'<p>Writing to the clipboard is <strong>easy</strong> with this code.</p>'
>>> cb.GetSource()
'http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/474121'
>>> 

import time

class datetime(object):
    def __init__(self, *argv):
        self.t = time.struct_time(argv+(0,)*(9-len(argv)))    # append to length 9 
    def __getattr__(self, name):
        try:
            i = ['year', 'month', 'day', 'hour', 'minute', 'second', 'weekday'].index(name)
            return self.t[i]
        except:
            return getattr(self.t, name)
    def __len__(self): return len(self.t)
    def __getitem__(self, key): return self.t[key]
    def __repr__(self): return repr(self.t)
    def now(self=None):
        return datetime(*time.localtime())
    now = staticmethod(now)
    def strftime(self, fmt="%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"):
        return time.strftime(fmt, self.t)

# here it works like datetime.datetime()
>>> t = datetime.now()
>>> t.year, t.month, t.day
(2006, 3, 13)
>>> t.hour, t.minute, t.second
(23, 3, 28)

# but also works like localtime()
>>> t
(2006, 3, 13, 23, 3, 28, 0, 72, -1)
>>> t.tm_year, t[0]
(2006, 2006)
>>> mktime(t)
1142265808.0

# good default for strftime (= ctime)
>>> t.strftime()
'2006-03-13 23:03:28'

# table schema
# CREATE TABLE person (id COUNTER, name VARCHAR)

db = e32db.Dbms()
db.begin()  # begin transaction (lock other inserts)
db.execute(u"INSERT INTO person(name) VALUES 'korakot' ") # insert a new row

dbv = e32db.Db_view()
dbv.prepare(db, u"SELECT id FROM person ORDER BY id DESC")
dbv.first_line()
dbv.get_line()
last_id = dbv.col(1)  # get it!

db.commit()  # commit the transaction

import e32, miso, thread
running = 1
def lighton():
  while running:
    miso.reset_inactivity_time()
    e32.ao_sleep(5)

thread.start_new_thread(lighton, ())
# end by set running = 0

import e32
import miso
import thread

flag = 1
def _lighton():
    while flag:
        miso.reset_inactivity_time()
        e32.ao_sleep(5)

def lighton():
    thread.start_new_thread(_lighton, ())

def lightoff():
    global flag
    flag = 0

import time
import thread

def myfunc(string,sleeptime):
    while 1:
        print string
        time.sleep(sleeptime)

thread.start_new_thread(myfunc,("Thread No:1",2))
# Then do other things.

CREATE TABLE person (id COUNTER, name VARCHAR)
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX id_index ON person(id)