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Strings & text easy

How to Highlight Search Terms in Python Text

Highlights all case-insensitive occurrences of a search term in a string by wrapping them in markers.

string search highlight
Python
def highlight_search_term(text: str, term: str) -> str:
    """Highlight all occurrences of term in text using terminal-style markers."""
    if not term:
        return text

    term_lower = term.lower()
    result = []
    i = 0

    while i < len(text):
        # Check if the term starts at position i (case-insens…
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Git + Python easy

Detect Merge Conflict Markers in a File with Python

Scan a file line by line to detect Git merge conflict markers (<<<<<<<, =======, >>>>>>>) and report their line numbers with context.

git merge-conflict file-scanning
Python
from pathlib import Path

def detect_merge_conflicts(file_path):
    conflicts = []
    with open(file_path, 'r') as f:
        lines = f.readlines()
    
    for i, line in enumerate(lines, 1):
        if line.startswith('<<<<<<<'):
            conflict_marker = 'conflict start'
            conflicts.append((i, confl…
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Modern tooling easy

pytest mark slow skip integration

Uses pytest markers to select fast tests, skip unfinished ones, and run integration checks with verbose output.

pytest markers testing
Python
import pytest

def test_fast():
    assert 1 + 1 == 2

@pytest.mark.slow
def test_slow():
    import time
    time.sleep(1)
    assert 5 * 5 == 25

@pytest.mark.skip(reason="Not ready for production")
def test_skipped():
    assert 2 + 2 == 5

@pytest.mark.integration
def test_integration():
    database = {"users": […
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