In python you can assign values to a number of variables using tuple unpacking: foo, bar, baz = some_3_values_tuple But if the tuple does not have an exact number of values the assignment will fail with ValueError: >>> some_tuple = 1,2 >>> foo, bar, baz = some_tuple Traceback (most recent …
Use generator comprehensions. If you want to find one and just one element or None use default argument in call for next, it won’t raise StopIteration if the item was not found in the list: first_or_default = next((x for x in lst if …), None)
There come times when data schema changes so you’ll have to remove some models by the bunch. AFAIK there is no currently a „TRUNCATE TABLE MyKind” or „DROP TABLE MyKind” equivalent in Google App Engine data store, so you’ll have to write an ordinary request handler to do the bidding or use MapReduce. …
