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I am new at cron jobs and am not sure whether this would would work. For security purposes I thought about making a one page script that looks for certain GET values (a username, a password, and a security code) to make sure that only the computer and someone that knows all 3 can run the command. I made the script and it works running it in a browser but is it possible to run the cron job with GET values? a example would be me running * 3 * * * /path_to_script/cronjob.php?username=test&password=test&code=1234 Is this possible? RobB The $_GET[] & $_POST[] associative arrays are only initialized

The following two expressions seem equivalent to me. Which one is preferable? data = [('a', 1), ('b', 1), ('b', 2)] d1 = {} d2 = {} for key, val in data: # variant 1) d1[key] = d1.get(key, []) + [val] # variant 2) d2.setdefault(key, []).append(val) The results are the same but which version is better or rather more pythonic? Personally I find version 2 harder to understand, as to me setdefault is very tricky to grasp. If I understand correctly, it looks for the value of "key" in the dictionary, if not available, enters "[]" into the dict, returns a reference to either the value or "[]" and

So, I have to retrieve temperature from any one of the cities from http://www.rssweather.com/dir/Asia/India . Let's assume I want to retrieve of Kanpur's. How to make an HTTP GET request with Netcat? I'm doing something like this. nc -v rssweather.com 80 GET http://www.rssweather.com/wx/in/kanpur/wx.php HTTP/1.1 I don't know exactly if I'm even in the right direction or not. I am not able to find any good tutorials on how to make an HTTP get request with netcat, so I'm posting it on here. Of course you could dig in standards searched for google, but actually if you want to get only a single