# Monthly Favorites, September 2015

Originally published: 2015-09-30
Canonical URL: /2015/Sep/monthly-favorites-september-2015/

__Favorite commit message fragment:__ "it turns out that it's `\d` that matches a digit, whereas, counterintuitively, `d` matches the letter 'd'."

__Favorite line of code:__ a tie, between

```rust
    let mut time_radios: Vec<(Commit, mpsc::Receiver<(Option<Commit>, f32)>)> =
        Vec::new();
```

and

```python
        for (previous, new), expected in zip(
                itertools.product(('foo', None), ('bar', None)),
                ("from foo to bar", "from foo", "to bar", "")):
```

(Though both of these contain at least one internal newline, it's only for [PEP 8-like](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#maximum-line-length) reasons; they're both what we would intuitively call one "logical" line of code.)

__Favorite film:__ _My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Friendship Games_. (Poor plotting even by _Equestria Girls_ standards, and it could only have been because of magic that I didn't get [semantically satiated](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation) on the word _magic_ during the climax. Alternate-Twilight's idiotic decision to withdraw her application to the Everton independent study program in favor of transferring to the Canterlot School of Mediocrity and Friendship in order to be closer to the Humane 5+1 was as predictable as it was disappointing—though I _do_ credit the writers for at least _acknowledging_ the existence of alternatives to school. And what was up with that scene where we're momentarily led to believe that alternate-Spike got switched up with Equestria-Spike in a portal accident, but then it turns out that, no, alternate-Spike just magically learned how to talk? Is it that there was no time in the script to deal with the consequences of swapping sidekicks across worlds, but that Cathy Weseluck's contract guaranteed her a speaking role? Despite being the weakest film in the trilogy (_far_ worse than its brilliant predecessor, _My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks_), _Friendship Games_ is still a fun watch, and an easy favorite during a month when I didn't see any other feature-length films.)