http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/user_input/popular/2015-02-28T07:04:31-08:00ActiveState Code Recipes2015-02-28T07:04:31-08:00Mike 'Fuzzy' Partinhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4179778/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/579028-a-basic-use-flag-editor-for-gentoo-linux-supportin/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 579028 by <a href="/recipes/users/4179778/">Mike 'Fuzzy' Partin</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/parsing/">parsing</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/popen/">popen</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/subprocess/">subprocess</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/user_input/">user_input</a>). </p> <p>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.</p>

2009-05-31T01:18:03-07:00Gabriel Genellinahttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/924636/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576786-detect-when-system-is-idle/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 576786 by <a href="/recipes/users/924636/">Gabriel Genellina</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ctypes/">ctypes</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/idle/">idle</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/idle_time/">idle_time</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/time/">time</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/user_input/">user_input</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/windows/">windows</a>). </p> <p>Detect when system is idle, globally. That is, the user is not moving the mouse nor typing anything, in any application (not just our program).</p>