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TL;DR What libraries/calls are available to handle query strings containing semi-colons differently than parse_qs? >>> urlparse.parse_qs("tagged=python;ruby") >>> {'tagged': ['python']} Full Background I'm working with the StackExchange API to search for tagged questions. Search is laid out like so, with tags separated by semi-colons: /2.1/search?order=desc&sort=activity&tagged=python;ruby&site=stackoverflow Interacting with the API is just fine. The problem comes in when I want to test the calls, particularly when using httpretty to mock HTTP. Under the hood, httpretty is using urlparse.parse

For years I have used OpenID delegation to log in to Stack Overflow (among other sites) using my own URI as OpenID but having Google handle the authentication. I use the technique described in this Stack Overflow question ; so, my custom OpenID http://tupelo-schneck.org/robert resolves to an HTML page containing this: <link href="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/ud" rel="openid2.provider" /> <link href="https://www.google.com/profiles/schneck" rel="openid2.local_id" /> Now, however, I have logged into Stack Overflow and had Google tell me " Important notice: OpenID2 for Google accounts is

Now a days real time updates are common in most popular sites which have heavy usages. StackExchange Facebook Twitter I'm wondering how do these "real time updates" work? I'm just looking for a general bird's view perspective. I suspect that the JS can't be calling the server every X seconds for an update and then appending that to the <ul> . Is a notification sent from the server went to pull more content? Would be great if there is a simple how to article that explains this with a demo? Stack Overflow is using Web Sockets for real time updates. If you take a look in the source code (2012

I am using Redis with StackExchange.Redis. I have multiple threads that will at some point access and edit the value of the same key, so I need to synchronize the manipulation of the data. Looking at the available functions, I see that there are two functions, TakeLock and ReleaseLock. However, these functions take both a key and a value parameter rather than the expected single key to be locked. The intellisene documentation and source on GitHub don't explain how to use the LockTake and LockRelease functions or what to pass in for the key and value parameters. Q: What is the correct usage of