Popular recipes tagged "meta:requires=calendar"

Create simple PDF text calendars with xtopdf (Python)

2014-02-14T22:33:04-08:00

Python recipe 578832 by Vasudev Ram (calendar, pdf, python, reportlab, xtopdf).

This recipe shows how to create simple text calendars as PDF using xtopdf, a Python toolkit for PDF creation.

Calendar Maker (Python)

2012-07-03T05:23:57-07:00

Python recipe 578187 by Stephen Chappell (archive, calendar, cgi, old).

This is an old program experimenting with CGI techniques in Python using CGIHTTPServer and designed for creating calendars. This is committed for archival to be run under Python 2.5 or later versions.

Cron-like Triggers (Python)

2010-12-07T22:52:10-08:00

Python recipe 577466 by Eric Pruitt (anacron, cron, job, scheduler, task). Revision 4.

This module provides an easy to use interface for cron-like task scheduling. The latest version and its unit tests can be found at github.

Python 3 WSGI Server (Python)

2009-09-22T11:36:30-07:00

Python recipe 576906 by poops mcgee . Revision 2.

This is a simplified version of tornado's WSGI server implemented in python 3.

Example usage:

import web
import wsgiref.simple_server

class MainHandler(web.RequestHandler):
    def get(self):
        self.write("Hello, world")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    application = web.WSGIApplication([
        (r"/", MainHandler),
    ])
    server = wsgiref.simple_server.make_server('', 8888, application)
    server.serve_forever()

Delete all message older than a given date in a pop account (Python)

2009-10-05T12:56:13-07:00

Python recipe 576922 by Benjamin Sergeant (delete, email, pop).

I was using the keep option in fetchmail, so I had a huge number of emails that seems to slow down mails retrieval / pop connection. I wanted a way to

DateTimeSyncer with Daylight Savings Time adjustment (Python)

2008-10-31T15:52:18-07:00

Python recipe 576546 by Jack Trainor (shortcuts, sysadmin). Revision 5.

DateTimeSyncer synchronizes computer's current date and time with Daylight Savings adjustment directly without depending on operating system or Python's time.localtime().

This allows programmers to update Daylight Savings Time rules without depending on external updates to OS or Python.

Double-clicking this module will synchronize your computer's date and time on a Windows machine. It can be easily extended other time zones and other operating systems.

Cataloging and adding IPTC keywords to digital photos (Python)

2007-01-19T13:38:49-08:00

Python recipe 500266 by Chad Cooper (exif, graphics, iptc, photography).

This script helps me manage my digital photos by filing them in a directory based on the EXIF date and applying keywords and by-line information to the IPTC metadata.

z_html.py (Python)

2006-07-05T09:40:44-07:00

Python recipe 496862 by Stephen Chappell (cgi).

This recipe requires the z_matrix module. Two classes are provided, HTML_Table and HTML_Month. HTML_Table can manage the generation of a table in HTML format. HTML_Month builds on top of HTML_Table and expands on its capabilities. It allows for dynamically created tables that have the look of the selected month.

Thread-safe caching object with file and HTTP implementations (Python)

2006-02-08T10:04:16-08:00

Python recipe 302997 by Nicolas Lehuen (algorithms). Revision 9.

Implementation of an abstract, thread-safe cache with minimal locking. Four concrete implementations : a validating file cache, a validating HTTP cache, an experimental Python module cache and a function cache. Plus, an abstract cache with weak references to its values.

To Find out the Hard Disk Size,Free Space and Used Space of a Networked Computer (Python)

2001-07-31T12:39:56-07:00

Python recipe 66455 by Ratnakar Malla (sysadmin).

This module , does not take any i/p file. It first does a net view command , and gets the list of computers in the domain. Connects to each computer , performs size check and returns the size of the harddisk. Please note that , the file and dir sizes are caluclated in DOS. Windows performs a sort of approximation. So there will be slight variation in the amount of space reported by DOS and Windows. If I am not wrong DOS gives u the best values.

Pure Python strptime (Python)

2003-09-15T18:01:45-07:00

Python recipe 56036 by Brett Cannon . Revision 10.

This is a modification of the Python code that powers time.strptime() in CVS on 2003-08-11 (Python 2.4 development) to be compatible with Jython 2.1 and CPython 2.1 . It does require the datetime package if you want missing date info to be filled in; it can be found in CVS at /python/nondist/sandbox/datetime/ .

If you are using CPython version 2.3.0 or higher, then you do not need this. A more modernized version of the code is included in the language.