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userlist = ['Tsukatu', 'blue_tetris', 'MacrossDreams']
for username in userlist:
    print "Man, I totally can't stand", username

# prints:
#
# Man, I totally can't stand Tsukatu
# Man, I totally can't stand blue_tetris
# Man, I totally can't stand MacrossDreams

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# equivalent of a for(i=0; i<5; i++) loop
for i in range(6):
    print i

# prints: 
#
# 0
# 1
# 2
# 3
# 4
# 5

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word = 'doggy'
for character in word:
    print character

# prints:
#
# d
# o
# g
# g
# y

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print [i*i for i in range(5,11)]  # prints [25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100]  also note: i**2 is i squared, i**3 is i cubed, etc.

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userlist = ['Tsukatu', 'blue_tetris', 'MacrossDreams']
userlist_short = [name[:3] + '...' for name in userlist]  # note that name[:3] is a string slice operation which grabs from the start up to the third character of the string (or third item in a list)
print userlist_short  # prints ['Tsu...', 'blu...', 'Mac...']

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import random

print random.choice(['heads', 'tails'])  # prints heads or tails
print random.sample(range(1, 11), 5)  # prints 5 numbers randomly chosen from 1-10 without repeating i.e. [2, 7, 6, 3, 8]

deck_of_cards = ['9', '10', 'J', 'Q', 'K', 'A']
random.shuffle(deck_of_cards)  # (I hate in-place operations. Manipulative functions shouldn't return nothing!)
print deck_of_cards  # prints shuffled deck i.e. ['J', 'K', '9', 'A', '10', 'Q']

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import urllib

u = urllib.urlopen("http://forum.therealn.com")
for line in u():
    print line  # reads and prints the forum's html code, one line at a time. one of the more pointless uses for this library, granted.

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import re  # regular expressions

# If you don't know regular expressions, I'm afraid I probably won't teach them to you. But here's the library if you're looking for it.

import re, urllib
u = urllib.urlopen("http://therealn.com")
u_fulltext = u.read()
links = re.findall("<a href=\"?(.*?)\"?>", u_fulltext)
print links  # prints all the links on the Real N homepage

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n_tileset = '0'*713 + '|'  # prints a blank N tileset. i.e. 00000000000 ... 000|

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print 'G' + 'o'*10 + 'gle'  # prints 'Goooooooooogle'

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1...number=0
2...while number<5:
3...    print number
4...    number=number+1
5...print "done"

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1...for number in range(5):
2...    print number
3...print "done"

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while True:
    print "PENUS"

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count = 1
while True:
    print count
    count += 1

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def rtiles()
    import random
    return ''.join([random.choice(['10215021EJ111AGOO11A0;1',
	    '1@214001E?111A00>11A0;1',
	    '111A0FJ111A00000>11MI0N']) for i in range(31)])