Latest recipes tagged "converter"

Put Peewee ORM data to PDF with xtopdf (Python)

2016-09-29T18:04:57-07:00

Python recipe 580704 by Vasudev Ram (conversion, converter, database, formats, orm, pdf, pdf_generation, peewee, python, python2, sqlite, xtopdf).

This recipe shows how some basics of how to fetch data from database tables managed by the Peewee ORM (a lightweight expressive ORM for Python) and write that data, formatted, to a PDF file. The recipe uses Python, the Peewee ORM and the xtopdf toolkit for PDF creation.

How to use Python to convert a web page to PDF with a POST request to SelectPdf Online API and save it on the disk (Python)

2015-11-16T14:52:17-08:00

Python recipe 579126 by SelectPdf (api, converter, htmltopdf, pdf, selectpdf).

This code converts an url to pdf in Python using SelectPdf HTML To PDF REST API through a POST request. The parameters are JSON encoded. The content is saved into a file on the disk.

Image Converter (Python)

2015-01-18T19:14:38-08:00

Python recipe 579007 by FB36 (conversion, conversions, convert, converter, image, images, pil).

Converts an image from one format to another using PIL.

Spoken Word to Number (Python)

2012-09-11T18:42:09-07:00

Python recipe 578258 by Pushpendre (converter, nlp, number, spoken).

convert number represented the way they are spoken to actual numbers

Decimal Number To Byte(s) And String To Byte(s) Converter. (Python)

2012-01-24T21:11:47-08:00

Python recipe 578025 by Barry Walker (bytes, converter, decimal, linux, string, windows).

A function to convert decimal integer numbers, (from 0 to 255), into byte(s) format. Another function calling the above function to convert ASCII strings into byte(s) format.

Python 3.1.3 (r313:86834, Nov 28 2010, 10:01:07) [GCC 4.4.5] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>> exec(open('/home/G0LCU/Desktop/Code/d2b.py').read())
>>> a=78
>>> type(a)
<class 'int'>
>>> b=d2b(a)
>>> print(b)
b'N'
>>> type(b)
<class 'bytes'>
>>> text="\x00(C)2012, B.Walker, G0LCU.\xFF"
>>> len(text)
27
>>> type(text)
<class 'str'>
>>> newtext=t2b(text)
>>> len(newtext)
27
>>> print(newtext)
b'\x00(C)2012, B.Walker, G0LCU.\xff'
>>> type(newtext)
<class 'bytes'>

It requires NOTHING special at all to work and can be run like above or imported from the correct "Lib" drawer/folder/directorfy as:-

>>> import d2b

And when imported called as:-

>>> d2b.d2b(some_number, optional_some_other_mumber)<RETURN/ENTER>

>>> d2b.t2b(some_ASCII_string)<RETURN/ENTER>

Read the code for much more information...

Issued under the GPL2 licence.

Enjoy finding simple solutions to often very difficult problems.

Bazza, G0LCU.

Bytes-to-human / human-to-bytes converter (Python)

2012-02-02T16:09:52-08:00

Python recipe 578019 by Giampaolo Rodolà (bytes, conversion, converter, human, humanize, string). Revision 15.

Here goes.

Convert XML into JSON (Python dicts and lists structure) (Python)

2011-08-22T13:30:33-07:00

Python recipe 577494 by Nikola (converter, json, xml). Revision 2.

There are many ways to convert a specific XML dialect into JSON for easier consumption by Javascript code. This recipe works for some XML-based data, where the format is not really a document and html tags are used as field placeholders. You can use it as-is, but it is intended to serve as a starting point where you can plug your specific needs.

Convert a youtube transcript in srt subtitle (Python)

2010-11-12T01:59:53-08:00

Python recipe 577459 by Ginko (converter, srt, transcript, youtube).

A quick and dirty script to convert youtube's transcripts (xml format) to .srt subtitle files.

To download youtube's transcript, use this url: http://video.google.com/timedtext?lang=en&v=VIDEO_ID (replace "VIDEO_ID" by the ID which is in the video URL).

You can easily use this converter in a script which could download the transcript by importing it and then call the main function.

iter_except -- a useful variant of builtin.iter() (Python)

2010-03-27T02:04:22-07:00

Python recipe 577155 by Raymond Hettinger (converter, iterator, wrapper).

Variant of iter(func, sentinel) that looks for an exception rather than for a sentinel value. Good for making iterators from of APIs that advance over a data and return an exception when they are done.

Convert PDF to plain text (Python)

2010-11-25T15:30:52-08:00

Python recipe 577095 by ccpizza (converter, pdf).

This is a very raw PDF converter which has absolutely no idea of the page layout or text positioning.

To install the required module try easy_install pypdf in a console.

Convert Trac wiki markup to HTML (Python)

2010-03-09T08:02:36-08:00

Python recipe 577094 by ccpizza (converter, trac).

Convert trac wiki markup to HTML Usage: %s <inputfile.wiki> [outputfile.html] If outputfile.html is missing output is redirected to stdout in utf8 encoding.