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1. Holiday Calendars, File Formats, et al    stackoverflow.com

I'm looking for a way to figure out whether a given date is a "holiday," given some holiday calendar. Specifically, you might say is_holiday (datetime.date, "USA") which would answer whether the given ...

2. Python repr function problem    stackoverflow.com

I'm dealing with some text parsing in Python and for that purpose, it's good for me to apply repr() function on each string I'm gonna parse, but after the parsing, I ...

3. Python: Get system calendar format    stackoverflow.com

Is it possible to return the current system calendar format using Python? For example non-Gregorian calendar formats such as the Thai Buddhist calendar.

4. How do I figure out the format for struct.unpack (because I didn't pack in Python)?    stackoverflow.com

I have a C pipe client (pulled directly from the CallNamedPipe example found here) that, if given the string "first", sends the following message to my Python pipeserver:

b'f\x00i\x00r\x00s\x00t\x00\x00\x00'

5. Python equivalent of Perl's 'w' packing format    stackoverflow.com

What format I should use in struct.unpack to decode data packed in perl using w format character (as doc says 'BER compressed integer')?

6. How to pack a UUID into a struct in Python in a specific format?    stackoverflow.com

I've found the following thread How to pack a UUID into a struct in Python?, but it didn't solve my problem: I have for example the following uuid:

from uuid import ...