Popular recipes tagged "meta:requires=argparse"

Recursive find replace in files using regex (Python)

2016-04-28T13:24:15-07:00

Python recipe 580653 by ccpizza (files, regex, replace, search). Revision 5.

Recursively find and replace text in files under a specific folder with preview of changed data in dry-run mode

Example Usage

See what is going to change (dry run):

find_replace.py --dir project/myfolder --search-regex "\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}" --replace-regex "2012-12-12" --dryrun

Do actual replacement:

find_replace.py --dir project/myfolder --search-regex "\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}" --replace-regex "2012-12-12"

Do actual replacement and create backup files:

find_replace.py --dir project/myfolder --search-regex "\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}" --replace-regex "2012-12-12" --create-backup

Same action as previous command with short-hand syntax:

find_replace.py -d project/myfolder -s "\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}" -r "2012-12-12" -b

Output of find_replace.py -h:

DESCRIPTION:
    Find and replace recursively from the given folder using regular expressions

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --dir DIR, -d DIR     folder to search in; by default current folder
  --search-regex SEARCH_REGEX, -s SEARCH_REGEX
                        search regex
  --replace-regex REPLACE_REGEX, -r REPLACE_REGEX
                        replacement regex
  --glob GLOB, -g GLOB  glob pattern, i.e. *.html
  --dryrun, -dr         don't replace anything just show what is going to be
                        done
  --create-backup, -b   Create backup files

USAGE:
   find_replace.py -d [my_folder] -s <search_regex> -r <replace_regex> -g [glob_pattern]

Makes html with javascript to animate a sequence of images (Python)

2016-08-07T20:41:12-07:00

Python recipe 580675 by Brian Fiedler (animation, javascript). Revision 2.

Given paths to image files, produces the html file with embedded javascript to animate those images as a web page.

bookmarks browser for firefox (Python)

2015-07-06T23:15:31-07:00

Python recipe 579077 by Anton Vredegoor (bookmarks, firefox, gui, tkinter).

a small tkinter gui to browse the .json type bookmark files firefox automatically generates each day. It's meant to be run from a terminal. If a tree item is doubleclicked it prints the uri.

Tail multiple pidgin IRC logfiles (Python)

2015-06-06T12:13:00-07:00

Python recipe 579066 by Anton Vredegoor (colorize, irc, iterators, logfiles, merging, nonblocking, pidgin, tail, threads). Revision 2.

Tail multiple pidgin IRC logfiles.

Pidgin should be connected to IRC with the channels one wants to tail joined, and it should save logs as text.

The script needs two arguments:

the directory containing the directories with channel logs

a list of channel names, quoted and separated by spaces

Example command:

python pidgin-irctail.py -d ~/.purple/logs/irc/YOUR_IRC_HANDLE@irc.freenode.net -c "#chan1 #chan2 #chan3"

Some text elements are higlighted, and channel names are inserted into the log lines after the time info.

If more than one channel is entered, the output of the logs is merged.

Split file in place into two parts (Python)

2015-02-11T20:08:35-08:00

Python recipe 579025 by shavy89 (file, splitting). Revision 2.

Split file in place into two parts

beep based alarm - command line utility (Python)

2014-10-25T22:29:10-07:00

Python recipe 578953 by Tomas Nordin (alarm, argparse, beep, commandline). Revision 2.

An alarm beeping on you when the eggs are boiled.

Recursive Multimedia (audio, video) M3U Playlist Generator (Python)

2014-02-08T01:03:36-08:00

Python recipe 578771 by Mano Bastardo (audio, ffmpeg, generate, m3u, mulitmedia, os, playlist, python, system, video). Revision 9.

Generate an m3u playlist searching recursively for multimedia files (video or audio) in the given directory. Information from ID3 tags will be extracted for audio files with FFmpeg available.

'Which' for Windows (Python)

2013-08-16T09:14:07-07:00

Python recipe 578642 by Robert Pyron (commandline, python, utility, which, windows). Revision 2.

WHICH.PY scans through all directories specified in the system %PATH% environment variable, looking for the specified COMMAND(s). It tries to follow the sometimes bizarre rules for Windows command lookup.

pack multiple images of different sizes into one image (Python)

2013-06-27T14:50:37-07:00

Python recipe 578585 by Hugo (graphics).

Packing images of different sizes into one image is often required in order to efficiently use hardware accelerated texture mapping functions of 3D video cards.

Colorize Python -- Sourcecode Syntax Highlighting (Python)

2012-07-21T02:46:37-07:00

Python recipe 578178 by Raymond Hettinger (highlighting, syntax). Revision 20.

Generates colorized HTML, ANSI escaped text, or a LaTeX document from Python source code. Useful for publishing or viewing your code in a more readable way.

Ghoster - Windows program to create 0kb clone of folder or drive (Python)

2012-09-02T13:30:29-07:00

Python recipe 578251 by commentator8 (clone, copy, directory, windows).

A program that will create a "ghost" of a given directory or drive on windows systems (easily adaptable to unix etc) to a given destination. This will consist of a copy of all folders and files with only names and extensions retained, not size. This allows browsing of a remote drive or network location when offline.

A small python script to detect .net framwork versions installed on your local windows machine (Python)

2012-05-23T15:33:13-07:00

Python recipe 578143 by Yong Zhao (dotnet, framework, python_scripts, windows_registry, _winreg).

This small script uses the _winreg module to find out the .net framwork versions installed on your local machine. tested using IronPython 2.7.1.

Find a line of text in another file (Python)

2012-06-15T15:45:18-07:00

Python recipe 578164 by sami jan (line, search). Revision 2.

This is a simple recipe - it reads a line in file, removes the line-ending and attempts to search throughout another file for the same line, anywhere in the file

In case a line is missing, the line number is printed to stdout

Left-handed password generator (Python)

2011-10-31T12:51:14-07:00

Python recipe 577930 by Alex (generator, lefthand, lefthanded, password, passwords). Revision 2.

Generate passwords that can easily be typed with only the left hand, very simple script

Generate automatically list of actions with argparse (Python)

2011-12-02T10:25:13-08:00

Python recipe 577947 by Andrea Crotti (argparse, cli). Revision 2.

This little sample script looks up in locals() to determine all the callables in main.

Then it passes them to parse_arguments, which show an help message as following usage:

prova.py [-h] {func2,func1}

positional arguments:
  {func2,func1}

optional arguments:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit

Useful to avoid duplication and make it easy to extend script functions.

Simple Regular Expression Tester (Python)

2010-12-25T00:12:44-08:00

Python recipe 577517 by Sunjay Varma (command, debugging, line, python, quick, re, regex, testing). Revision 2.

Is it possible to create a simple command line program that I can use to quickly test my regular expressions?

Yes it is. This simple regular expression tester uses Python's re module as well as others to quickly allow you to test your regular expression in one go.

TODO:

Add Support For Multiple Regular Expression Input

Recent Changes:

Made the output prettier with a little more whitespace. More bytes, but at least it's easier to read!

Holiday Leave (Python)

2010-07-01T13:21:09-07:00

Python recipe 577280 by farciarz (argparse, console, holiday, leave).

Simple console tool that helps in maintenance your free days from work + basic tutorial how to use argparse in practice. It's clear and few lines of code. Enjoy! :-)

argdeclare: declarative interface to argparse (Python)

2010-03-02T00:05:40-08:00

Python recipe 576935 by Shakeeb Alireza (argparse, cmdln, commandline, getopt, metaclass, option). Revision 5.

This is an implementation of the interface provided by the cmdln module but using argparse to provide the option/arg heavy parsing.

An example of usage is provided in the test function, which should produce the following from the command line:

$ python argdeclare.py --help

usage: argdeclare.py [-h] [-v] {uninstall,install,delete} ...

a description of the test app

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --version         show program's version number and exit

subcommands:
  valid subcommands

  {uninstall,install,delete}
                        additional help
    delete              help text for delete subcmd
    install             help text for install subcmd
    uninstall           help text for uninstall subcmd

$ python argdeclare.py install --help

usage: argdeclare.py install [-h] [-t TYPE] [--log] [-f] package

positional arguments:
  package               package to be (un)installed

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -t TYPE, --type TYPE  specify type of package
  --log, -l             log is on
  -f, --force           force through installation

enjoy!

Send Email (Python)

2012-08-26T11:23:54-07:00

Python recipe 576807 by sfwgeek (argparse, cli, command, email, interface, line, mail, python, send, smtplib). Revision 5.

A Command Line Interface (CLI) program to send email.