Popular recipes tagged "meta:requires=os" but not "windows"

Uno (Text-Based) (Python)

2017-07-15T00:46:59-07:00

Python recipe 580811 by Brandon Martin (artificial_intelligence, cards, game, text_game, uno).

A text based recreation of the classic card game featuring functional AIs to play with. Some rules have been modified. User interface is text based, non-curses, using only simple python commands to draw it.

ctypes CDLL with automatic errno checking (Python)

2017-01-03T10:31:26-08:00

Python recipe 580741 by Oren Tirosh .

This class extends ctypes.CDLL with automatic checking of errno and automatically raises an exception when set by the function.

File comparison utility in Python (Python)

2016-03-26T18:31:11-07:00

Python recipe 580631 by Vasudev Ram (commandline, comparison, file, files, linux, python, unix, utilities).

This is a recipe to compare any two files via a Python command-line program. It is like a basic version of the cmp command of Unix or the fc.exe (file compare) command of Windows.

Safely and atomically write to a file (Python)

2016-03-23T14:14:26-07:00

Python recipe 579097 by Steven D'Aprano (atomic, file, save). Revision 3.

Saving the user's data is risky. If you write to a file directly, and an error occurs during the write, you may corrupt the file and lose the user's data. One approach to prevent this is to write to a temporary file, then only when you know the file has been written successfully, over-write the original. This function returns a context manager which can make this more convenient.

Update: this now uses os.replace when available, and hopefully will work better on Windows.

Catalog multiple drives (Python)

2016-03-11T03:39:32-08:00

Python recipe 580619 by Jack Trainor (drives, files, utility).

As one accumulates multiple drives, hard and flash, containing, thousands even millions of files, it becomes useful to have a text file containing an alphabetized catalog list of all files and their locations by drive and directory.

The list can be searched by eye or by an editor to locate particular files.

The list can also be loaded into a script to be filtered programmatically as desired.

FileSpec: Set it, forget it, reuse it (Python)

2016-03-08T05:49:16-08:00

Python recipe 580618 by Jack Trainor (filename, utilities).

Python provides good utilities for transforming filenames, but they are tedious to use and clutter up the source code.

FileSpec offers one-stop shopping to convert a file path to every component you might want to know, reuse, or transform.

Persistent Queue (Python)

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

Python recipe 579124 by zhangkaizhao (sysadmin).

A class for persistent queues.

vlc.py stream capture scheduler script (Python)

2015-08-19T05:00:25-07:00

Python recipe 579096 by jwhite88 (recording, stream, vlc).

Capture network streams using vlc.py on a schedule.

Examples for random float between 0 and 1 (Python)

2015-06-25T17:55:33-07:00

Python recipe 579072 by Stephen Chappell (example, random).

I was researching how floats are stored in a computer and was trying to think up a way to generate random values between 0 and 1. Python already provides an implementation allowing this already, and two of the functions below are directly inspired by that code, but the third is a slightly different way of doing the same thing. A similar version of this code has been used to implement similar functionality in C# at one time. Others might also find it useful if they want to create equivalent code in a separate language while having access to random bytes but not random floats. It should be noted that the various implementations get slower as you go down the list.

Simple audio with ctypes and SDL also for Tkinter (Python)

2015-08-17T18:54:17-07:00

Python recipe 579070 by Jiri Justra (audio, sdl, sdl_mixer, tkinter). Revision 3.

I've needed just to play audio in my Tkinter application, but it seems there is no easy way to do this, so I have made this simple code. It is small ctypes wrapper around SDL_mixer.

It should work for Win and *nix also .. I've tested it on ubuntu-14.04.3-desktop-i386

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.

A UNIX-like "which" command for Python (Python)

2015-03-20T19:23:45-07:00

Python recipe 579035 by Vasudev Ram (bash, commandline, commands, linux, shell, unix, utilities, which).

UNIX users are familiar with the which command. Given an argument called name, it checks the system PATH environment variable, to see whether that name exists (as a file) in any of the directories specified in the PATH. (The directories in the PATH are colon-separated on UNIX and semicolon-separated on Windows.)

This recipe shows how to write a minimal which command in Python. It has been tested on Windows.

Convert doc and docx files to pdf (Python)

2014-03-31T18:39:16-07:00

Python recipe 578858 by Fabian Mayer (doc, pdf, python, win32com). Revision 2.

The Script converts all doc and docx files in a specified folder to pdf files. It checks whether the provided absolute path does actually exist and whether the specified folder contains any doc and docx files. It does not travers the directory recursively. The script is not portable and runs only a Windows machine. Based on the experience I made, I recommend closing MS Word before running the script.

Robust Testing of Tkinter Menu Items with Mocking. (Python)

2017-06-13T18:44:58-07:00

Python recipe 578964 by Stephen Rigden (invoke, mainloop, mock, mocking, tk, tkinter, unittest, unittesting, unittests). Revision 7.

This recipe addresses the problems encountered when building robust tests for Tk menus. The software under test is a simple window with two menu items that each invoke a one button dialog box. All user visible text is imported from an external config.ini file. This scenario can lead to fragile test code because of the way TK's invoke(index) command has been implemented. (Tcl8.6.3/Tk8.6.3.)

Python: Determine Name and Directory of the Top Level Running Script (Python)

2015-02-03T01:37:09-08:00

Python recipe 579018 by Harald Lieder .

Yet another way to provide this information. I wanted to get the right answers in ANY situation: Python 2 or 3, compiled or interpreted (interactive or batch). The following code has been tested under Windows, Python 2.7, Python 3.4, IDLE, IPython (sh and Qt), PyInstaller, cx_Freeze, py2exe.

A Basic USe flag EDitor for Gentoo Linux supporting on-the-fly editing (Python)

2015-02-28T07:04:31-08:00

Python recipe 579028 by Mike 'Fuzzy' Partin (parsing, popen, subprocess, user_input).

This allows for on-the-fly editing. Simply drop abused.py into your path, and ensure that -a is not set in EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS in /etc/portage/make.conf. Then whenver you are installing new packages, use abused in place of emerge (eg: abused multitail) you will be presented with a list of use flags that are used in this action, and a prompt for editing any of them, simply hit enter with no changes to fire off the build.

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

Python ADO Database Interface for MS SQL Server - Python 3 version 1.0 (Python)

2014-08-27T16:04:04-07:00

Python recipe 578913 by Jorge Besada (ado, database). Revision 3.

This DBI implements the Cursor and Connection objects. You can create connections, cursors, do fetchone, fetchall. It uses ADO. Will add more features later

Non-blocking readlines() (Python)

2014-06-30T20:30:57-07:00

Python recipe 578900 by Zack Weinberg (concurrency, input, line, nonblocking).

A generator function which takes a file object (assumed to be some sort of pipe or socket, open for reading), and yields lines from it without blocking. If there is no input available, it will yield an endless stream of empty strings until input becomes available again; caller is responsible for not going into a busy loop. (Newlines are normalized but not stripped, so if there is actually a blank line in the input, the value yielded will be '\n'.) The intended use case is a thread which must respond promptly to input from a pipe, and also something else which cannot be fed to select (e.g. a queue.Queue). Note that the file object is ignored except for its fileno.

Only tested on Unix. Only tested on 3.4; ought to work with any python that has bytearray, locale.getpreferredencoding, and fcntl.

Not Quite So Simple QuickTime Player, Python Audio Capture. (Python)

2014-11-08T19:10:58-08:00

Python recipe 578960 by Barry Walker (apple, audio, audio_capture, capture, macbook_pro, maccbook_pro, sample, signal_capture).

Not Quite So Simple QuickTime Player, Python Audio Capture.

This DEMO code captures a function to generate a user 5 second Audio sample in Apple *.aifc format. It is then converted to DC quailty *.WAV format.

It uses default shell system files to do the task.

An AppleScript is created to do the sample but due to the limitations of QT Player there is a 1.5 second delay to allow QuickTine Player to start up. It is not entirely quiet but unobtrusive enough as to be like quiet mode...

This is again a means a signal capture for an AudioScope without the need for special tools or installs.

Read the code for more information.

IMPORTANT!!! This DEMO WILL delete all *.aifc files inside the default $HOME/Movies directory, so be aware.

A simple ALSA one is on its way too...

It actually works on Python 3.4.1 but I have no idea if it works below Python 2.5.6...

Bazza...