http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/formats-python/popular/2017-03-12T23:10:48-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2016-10-26T17:49:00-07:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580710-read-csv-with-d-and-write-it-to-pdf-with-python/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 580710 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/conversion/">conversion</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/csv/">csv</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/data/">data</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/files/">files</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/formats/">formats</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf_generation/">pdf_generation</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xtopdf/">xtopdf</a>). </p> <p>This recipe shows how to read data from a CSV file with a D program and write that data to a PDF file with a Python program - all in a single command-line invocation (after writing the individual programs, of course).</p> <p>It requires the xtopdf toolkit, which you can get from:</p> <p><a href="https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/xtopdf" rel="nofollow">https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/xtopdf</a></p> <p>Instructions for installing xtopdf:</p> <p><a href="http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/07/guide-to-installing-and-using-xtopdf.html" rel="nofollow">http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/07/guide-to-installing-and-using-xtopdf.html</a></p> <p>xtopdf in turn requires the open source version of the ReportLab toolkit, which you can get from:</p> <p><a href="http://www.reportlab.com/ftp" rel="nofollow">http://www.reportlab.com/ftp</a> (<a href="http://www.reportlab.com/ftp/reportlab-1.21.1.tar.gz%29" rel="nofollow">http://www.reportlab.com/ftp/reportlab-1.21.1.tar.gz)</a></p> <p>It also requires the DMD compiler to compile the D program - this was the version used:</p> <p>DMD32 D Compiler v2.071.2</p>

2017-03-12T23:10:48-07:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580762-number-of-bits-needed-to-store-an-integer-and-its-/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 580762 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/binary/">binary</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/formats/">formats</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/integers/">integers</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/numbers/">numbers</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/representation/">representation</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/type/">type</a>). </p> <p>This recipe shows how to find, via Python code, the number of bits needed to store an integer, and how to generate its binary representation. It does this for integers from 0 to 256.</p> <p>More details and full output here:</p> <p><a href="https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2017/03/find-number-of-bits-needed-to-store.html" rel="nofollow">https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2017/03/find-number-of-bits-needed-to-store.html</a></p>

2010-01-09T22:46:42-08:00Karl Dickmanhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172760/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576996-rfc-822-style-parser/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 576996 by <a href="/recipes/users/4172760/">Karl Dickman</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/data/">data</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/formats/">formats</a>). Revision 7. </p> <p>In <em>The Art of Unix Programming</em>, Eric S. Raymond describes a data file metaformat based on RFC 822. [http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch05s02.html#id2902039] This is a simple parser for that format.</p>