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How do I get the current time?

How do I get the current time?
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Catch multiple exceptions in one line (except block)

I know that I can do: try: # do something that may fail except: # do this if ANYTHING goes wrong I can also do this: try: # do something that may fail except IDontLikeYouException: # say please except YouAreTooShortException: #…
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Iterate through a HashMap

What's the best way to iterate over the items in a HashMap?
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How do I POST JSON data with cURL?

I use Ubuntu and installed cURL on it. I want to test my Spring REST application with cURL. I wrote my POST code at the Java side. However, I want to test it with cURL. I am trying to post a JSON data. Example data is like…
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How can I create a memory leak in Java?

I just had an interview where I was asked to create a memory leak with Java. Needless to say, I felt pretty dumb, having no idea how to start creating one. What would an example be?
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How to copy files

How do I copy a file in Python?
Matt
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How do I correctly clone a JavaScript object?

I have an object x. I'd like to copy it as object y, such that changes to y do not modify x. I realized that copying objects derived from built-in JavaScript objects will result in extra, unwanted properties. This isn't a problem, since I'm copying…
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How do I stash only one file out of multiple files that have changed?

How do I stash only one of the multiple changed files on my branch?
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Get the current URL with JavaScript?

All I want is to get the website URL. Not the URL as taken from a link. On the page loading I need to be able to grab the full, current URL of the website and set it as a variable to do with as I please.
dougoftheabaci
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Convert bytes to a string in Python 3

I captured the standard output of an external program into a bytes object: >>> from subprocess import * >>> stdout = Popen(['ls', '-l'], stdout=PIPE).communicate()[0] >>> stdout b'total 0\n-rw-rw-r-- 1 thomas thomas 0 Mar 3 07:03 file1\n-rw-rw-r--…
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How do I create a remote Git branch?

I created a local branch. How do I push it to the remote server? UPDATE: I have written a simpler answer for Git 2.0 here.
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Set cellpadding and cellspacing in CSS?

In an HTML table, the cellpadding and cellspacing can be set like this: How can the same be accomplished using CSS?
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What is the JavaScript version of sleep()?

Is there a better way to engineer a sleep in JavaScript than the following pausecomp function (taken from here)? function pausecomp(millis) { var date = new Date(); var curDate = null; do { curDate = new Date(); } while(curDate-date…
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What is the difference between public, protected, package-private and private in Java?

In Java, are there clear rules on when to use each of access modifiers, namely the default (package private), public, protected and private, while making class and interface and dealing with inheritance?
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What is the difference between __str__ and __repr__?

What is the difference between __str__ and __repr__ in Python?
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