Steven Maude

Unused queen8 example/problem in functions chapter directory

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Maybe [this code](https://github.com/miekg/learninggo/blob/361e6e5e151ca25257852cec1a2333b55b65feb5/ex/functions/src/queen8.go) is a problem solution that never had a problem written for it?

The problem is phrased as: > In the maximum exercise we created a max function that works on a slice of integers. The question now is to create a program...

Output for Python 3.5, but same test failure for Python 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8. ``` $ nosetests --exe ...................................F. ====================================================================== FAIL: test_empty (tests.TestUniqueKeys) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File...

pdftoxml in utils.py is not portable to Windows.

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1. The [`/dev/null`](https://github.com/scraperwiki/scraperwiki-python/blob/master/scraperwiki/utils.py#L47) needs to be `NUL` on Windows. 2. [`NamedTemporaryFile`](https://github.com/scraperwiki/scraperwiki-python/blob/master/scraperwiki/utils.py#L38-L54) behaves [differently in Windows to Unix](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/94153/how-do-i-persist-to-disk-a-temporary-file-using-python/#9155528).

utils.py uses both urllib2 and requests to make requests

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Could be tidied.

pyhamcrest is listed here, but not required.

assert_one() failures are noisy and unfriendly

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``` Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/me/.virtualenvs/databaker/bin/bake", line 11, in sys.exit(main()) File "/home/me/.virtualenvs/databaker/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/databaker/bake.py", line 328, in main per_file(fn, recipe) File "/home/me/.virtualenvs/databaker/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/databaker/bake.py", line 272, in per_file obs = recipe.per_tab(tab) File...

In case of breaking dependency changes.

Release on PyPI

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Release a version on PyPI, so it can be installed directly with pip.