my_list = ["blue", "red", "green"]

#1- Using sort or srted directly or with specifc keys
my_list.sort() #sorts alphabetically or in an ascending order for numeric data 
my_list = sorted(my_list, key=len) #sorts the list based on the length of the strings from shortest to longest. 
# You can use reverse=True to flip the order

#2- Using locale and functools 
import locale
from functools import cmp_to_key
my_list = sorted(my_list, key=cmp_to_key(locale.strcoll))

def get_ldap_user(member_cn, user, passwrd):
    '''
    Get an LDAP user and return the SAMAccountName
    '''
    #---- Setting up the Connection
    #account used for binding - Avoid putting these in version control
    bindDN = str(user) + "@unt.ad.unt.edu"
    bindPass = passwrd

    #set some tuneables for the LDAP library.
    ldap.set_option(ldap.OPT_X_TLS_REQUIRE_CERT, ldap.OPT_X_TLS_ALLOW)
    #ldap.set_option(ldap.OPT_X_TLS_CACERTFILE, CACERTFILE)
    
    conn = ldap.initialize('ldaps://unt.ad.unt.edu')
    conn.protocol_version = 3
    conn.set_option(ldap.OPT_REFERRALS, 0)

    #authenticate the connection so that you can make additional queries
    try:
        result = conn.simple_bind_s(bindDN, bindPass) 
    except ldap.INVALID_CREDENTIALS:
        result = "Invalid credentials for %s" % user
        sys.exit()

    #build query in the form of (uid=user)
    ldap_query = '(|(displayName=' + member_cn + ')(cn='+ member_cn + ')(name=' + member_cn + '))'
    ldap_info = conn.search_s('DC=unt,DC=ad,DC=unt,DC=edu', ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE, filterstr=ldap_query)
    sAMAccountName = str(ldap_info[0][1]['sAMAccountName']).replace("[b'", "").replace("']","")
    return sAMAccountName

from collections import Counter

def find_parity_outliers(nums):
  return [
    x for x in nums
    if x % 2 != Counter([n % 2 for n in nums]).most_common()[0][0]
  ]

find_parity_outliers([1, 2, 3, 4, 6]) # [1, 3]

import itertools
import string
import time

def guess_password(real):
    chars = string.ascii_lowercase + string.ascii_uppercase + string.digits + string.punctuation
    attempts = 0
    for password_length in range(1, 9):
        for guess in itertools.product(chars, repeat=password_length):
            startTime = time.time()
            attempts += 1
            guess = ''.join(guess)
            if guess == real:
                return 'password is {}. found in {} guesses.'.format(guess, attempts)
            loopTime = (time.time() - startTime);
            print(guess, attempts, loopTime)

print("\nIt will take A REALLY LONG TIME to crack a long password. Try this out with a 3 or 4 letter password and see how this program works.\n")
val = input("Enter a password you want to crack that is 9 characters or below: ")
print(guess_password(val.lower()))

""" Currency Converter
----------------------------------------
"""
import urllib.request
import json
def currency_converter(currency_from, currency_to, currency_input):
    yql_base_url = "https://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql"
    yql_query = 'select%20*%20from%20yahoo.finance.xchange%20where%20pair' \
                '%20in%20("'+currency_from+currency_to+'")'
    yql_query_url = yql_base_url + "?q=" + yql_query + "&format=json&env=store%3A%2F%2Fdatatables.org%2Falltableswithkeys"
    try:
        yql_response = urllib.request.urlopen(yql_query_url)
        try:
            json_string = str(yql_response.read())
            json_string = json_string[2:
            json_string = json_string[:-1]
            print(json_string)
            yql_json = json.loads(json_string)
            last_rate = yql_json['query']['results']['rate']['Rate']
            currency_output = currency_input * float(last_rate)
            return currency_output
        except (ValueError, KeyError, TypeError):
            print(yql_query_url)
            return "JSON format error"
    except IOError as e:
        print(str(e))
currency_input = 1
#currency codes : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217
currency_from = "USD"
currency_to = "TRY"
rate = currency_converter(currency_from, currency_to, currency_input)
print(rate)

# importing the modules
import os
import shutil

# getting the current working directory
src_dir = os.getcwd()

# printing current directory
print(src_dir) 

# copying the files
shutil.copyfile('test.txt', 'test.txt.copy2') #copy src to dst

# printing the list of new files
print(os.listdir())