Popular recipes tagged "meta:requires=glob"

Convert wildcard text files to PDF with xtopdf (e.g. report*.txt) (Python)

2016-12-06T20:37:30-08:00

Python recipe 580727 by Vasudev Ram (conversion, files, globbing, patterns, pdf, pdfwriter, pdf_generation, text_processing, wildcard, xtopdf).

This recipe shows how to convert all text files matching a filename wildcard to PDF, using the xtopdf PDF creation toolkit. For example, if you specify report.txt as the wildcard, all files in the current directory that match report.txt, will be converted to PDF, each in a separate PDF file. The original text files are not changed.

Here is a guide to installing and using xtopdf:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/07/guide-to-installing-and-using-xtopdf.html

More details on running the program, and sample output, are available here:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2016/12/xtopdf-wildcard-text-files-to-pdf-with.html

Lines Of Code (LOC) (Python)

2016-10-25T17:53:01-07:00

Python recipe 580709 by Jean Brouwers (count, lines, python2, python3, source). Revision 3.

Count the number of lines (code, comment, blank) in one or several Python source files.

Simple directory list command with filename wildcard support (Python)

2016-12-02T20:52:56-08:00

Python recipe 580724 by Vasudev Ram (commandline, directory, file, filesystem, python, utilities).

This recipe shows a simple directory listing program. It can accept multiple command-line arguments specifying filenames. These filenames can include wildcard characters like * (asterisk) and ? (question mark), as is common in OS command shells like bash (Unix) and CMD (Windows). Tested on Windows but should work on Unix too, since it uses no OS-specific functions, or rather, it does use them, but that happens under the hood, within the libraries used.

convert hierarchy of data files into a convenient Python dictionary (Python)

2016-06-29T20:09:44-07:00

Python recipe 580687 by Brian Fiedler (pickle). Revision 2.

Converts the CRUTEM text data files into a convenient Python dictionary. The data files are at: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/crutem4/data/station_files/CRUTEM.4.4.0.0.station_files.zip

Persistent Queue (Python)

2015-11-12T06:45:12-08:00

Python recipe 579124 by zhangkaizhao (sysadmin).

A class for persistent queues.

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.

Use PIL to make a "contact sheet" montage of images (Python)

2012-09-21T11:06:58-07:00

Python recipe 578267 by Hugo (graphics). Revision 2.

The Python Imaging Library (PIL) makes many tasks easy in digital photography. This recipe shows how to make a "contact sheet" of images, a single image with thumbnails of many different pictures. It's limited in that it will only work with pictures of the same shape, but you can make some really fun images.

Bash completed man and info pages generation (Python)

2011-08-24T03:14:13-07:00

Python recipe 577854 by Josh D (a, all, and, bash, be, command, completed, consume, file, first, generation, get, in, info, line, man, modify, must, only, pages, possibilties, possiblities, py, python, run, script, so, tab, terminal, the, this, to). Revision 6.

The script it self is very self explaining - the task is simple. *NIX only unless with cygwin perhaps?

To start this open a terminal and strike the "Tab" key to get all possibilities (strike y, and strike the space key alot). Select all then Copy and save in "comms.txt" Modify the file so ONLY the possiblities consume a line; no prompts or extra newlines. (first line must be a command, the last line must be a command)

Save the file ("~/Documents/bashing/comms.txt" is my path) then run this script in "~/Documents/bashing/".

This generates two (2) files: "bash_help_man.sh", "bash_help_info.sh".

Then it runs these files: "bash bash_help_man.sh", "bash bash_help_info.sh".

This produces 2 files for every command (every line) in "comms.txt". All manpages are wrote in "mans/", all infopages are wrote in "infos/"

There is now alot of files to read and organize; lets separate these by size. Directories are under1kb, under2kb, etc.

Once complete do as you wish the files less than 128 kb; these files are COPIED into there new respective home, I repeat COPIED.

The files 128 kb and higher ARE NOT copied to anywhere!

Rename non-ASCII filenames to readable ASCII, i.e. replace accented characters, etc (Python)

2011-11-03T17:50:55-07:00

Python recipe 577226 by ccpizza (conversion, renaming, unicode). Revision 3.

The script converts any accented characters in filenames to their ASCII equivalents. e.g.:

Example:

â > a
ä > a
à > a
á > a
é > e
í > i
ó > o
ú > u
ñ > n
ü > u
...

Before-and-after example:

01_Antonín_Dvořák_Allegro.mp3   >>>  01_Antonin_Dvorak_Allegro.mp3

Usage:

Running the script without arguments will rename all files in the current folder. 
!!!WARNING!!! ***No*** backups are created.

Find the oldest (or yougest) of a list of files (Python)

2009-06-10T16:08:13-07:00

Python recipe 576804 by Micah Elliott (age, files, find, queue).

Sometimes you need to perform an operation on the oldest of a set of files. Using get_oldest_file you could implement an age-based priority queue that processes files from oldest to newest. The list of files you pass in may be from a glob of a single directory or some more elaborate search routine.

SPOJ backup script (Python)

2010-02-09T08:50:44-08:00

Python recipe 577036 by Shashwat Anand (algorithm, algorithms, spoj, tools). Revision 3.

Introduction

At Sphere Online Judge (http://www.spoj.pl) you are given the capability of trying out the challenging problems given. It also gives you the capability of viewing and downloading your own solution.

The tool spojbackup tends to automatically backup all your Accepted submissions and save them on the desired location of your computer. The basic idea is to automate the process which can be used as a backup and an offline reference tool of your own codes.

Features

Resume downloads. spojbackup currently supports resuming of the solutions if internet connection is disrupted
Incremental backup facility it'll not download the code already present on your machine. Only newer code added in your signedlist will be downloaded
User-defined destination all codes are saved at user-defined destination if no option is given by user it saves in the folder from where command is run
Proxy support Proxy support is provided as SPOJ users are generally university students and they are generally behind a proxy and university firewall.

Bugs

In case of finding a bug please drop a mail to the authors. We will try to sort out the problems.

A Moderately Simple Buttonbar Program (Python)

2010-02-10T02:08:37-08:00

Python recipe 577039 by Phil Rist (command_execution, user_interface).

This buttonbar program is similar to my ButtonBarV1 recipe 577038 except a file pattern such as c:\source\python\new*.py can be entered instead of a single file. This will allow you to scroll through a list of matching files selecting the files you want to process. You must still select the command separately for each file. Besides the file pattern or file a menu file and an optional list of section names are specified on the command line.

TwitterCmd - Interactive console for twittering (Python)

2009-10-08T02:15:19-07:00

Python recipe 576923 by Anand (command, microblogging, shortcuts, twitter). Revision 4.

TwitterCmd is an interactive console for twitter built on top of python-twitter library. It provides short, easy to remember commands for most twitter actions and provides a one-way interaction with the Python interpreter, exposing its objects to further inspection by the python-twitter API.

CMS page range validator. (Python)

2009-08-21T11:14:13-07:00

Python recipe 576889 by Joseph Reagle (formatting, page_ranges, writing).

Specification and validator for Chicago Manual of Style page ranges.

Redate pictures with EXIF (Python)

2009-06-29T03:06:01-07:00

Python recipe 576822 by Ivan Koblik (creation_date, date, exif, modification_date, picture, video). Revision 2.

Reads creation date from EXIF picture/video file header, and sets it to the file's creation and modification dates. This script differs from other recipes in its ability to work with the creation date in Windows. The script depends on several libraries: Win32 Extensions, pyexif, exif. Here's description of what they do and where to get them.

Interleaving file lines using iterators (Python)

2009-02-23T04:07:37-08:00

Python recipe 576665 by David Moss (file, generators, iterators, manipulation).

Accepts one of more files and/or globs and interleaves the lines from each writing the result to stdout.

Illustration: Writing a TappedIn.com calendar item from FeedDemon to Google Calendar (Python)

2009-01-03T17:13:46-08:00

Python recipe 576604 by Bill Bell (blog_publisher, feeddemon, google_calendar, tappedin).

This recipe is for reference purposes. It indicates how the FeedDemon RSS reader supplies information about a post to a blog publisher application under the default arrangements (ie, without specifying XML), and then how this information can be reformatted for a TappedIn.com calendar item for submission to the Google Calendar. Nothing unusual but might be useful to people who use FeedDemon and want to record TappedIn sessions on Google (obviously).

Changing shortcut on a usb key V2 (Python)

2008-08-22T13:34:57-07:00

Python recipe 576437 by bussiere bussiere (key, raccourcis, shortcut, usb, windows). Revision 2.

i've made some shortcut on my usb key for launchy and i had always to change them if on one pc the usb drive was i: on an other it was k: it was such a pain each time. Now it change all the shortcut automatically.

TimedCompressedRotatingFileHandler (Python)

2007-02-28T08:16:44-08:00

Python recipe 502265 by Angel Freire (debugging).

Python has really nice logging framework, it has too a zipfile library in the default installation that makes you able to write compressed files.

Several of the logging handlers "rotate" files, by size, date, etc. Here is an example of handler class for the logging framework that, when the file is rotated, it will make a .zip of the old file.

Persistent Queue (Python)

2007-06-27T11:43:13-07:00

Python recipe 501154 by Kjetil Jacobsen (sysadmin). Revision 2.

A class for persistent queues.