http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/1565518/2005-04-05T15:25:01-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2005-03-01T02:08:45-08:00Michael Foordhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/1565518/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/389916-example-setattr-getattr-overloading/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 389916 by <a href="/recipes/users/1565518/">Michael Foord</a> . </p> <p>An example of overloading __setattr__ and __getattr__ in classes. This example maps attribute names to dicitonary members.</p>

2004-10-05T14:05:47-07:00Michael Foordhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/1565518/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/305288-http-basic-authentication/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 305288 by <a href="/recipes/users/1565518/">Michael Foord</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/web/">web</a>). Revision 3. </p> <p>A script demonstrating how to manually do basic authentication over http.</p>

2005-04-05T15:25:01-07:00Michael Foordhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/1565518/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/408991-googlecacheserver/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 408991 by <a href="/recipes/users/1565518/">Michael Foord</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/web/">web</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>This is a simple implementation of a proxy server that fetches web pages from the google cache. It allows you to view the internet through the eyes of google ! Fire it up and point your browser at localhost:8000</p>

2004-12-28T11:26:41-08:00Michael Foordhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/1565518/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/302930-cookielib-example/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 302930 by <a href="/recipes/users/1565518/">Michael Foord</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/web/">web</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>cookielib is a library new to Python 2.4 Prior to Python 2.4 it existed as ClientCookie, but it's not a drop in replacement - some of the function of ClientCookie has been moved into urllib2.</p> <p>This example shows code for fetching URIs (with cookie handling - including loading and saving) that will work unchanged on : a machine with python 2.4 (and cookielib) a machine with ClientCookie installed a machine with neither (Obviously on the machine with neither the cookies won't be handled or saved).</p> <p>Where either cookielib or ClientCookie is available the cookies will be saved in a file. If that file exists already the cookies will first be loaded from it. The file format is a useful plain text format and the attributes of each cookie is accessible in the Cookiejar instance (once loaded).</p> <p>This may be helpful to those just using ClientCookie as the ClientCookie documentation doesn't appear to document the LWPCookieJar class which is needed for saving and loading cookies.</p>

2004-10-15T05:33:47-07:00Michael Foordhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/1565518/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/310320-webcounter/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 310320 by <a href="/recipes/users/1565518/">Michael Foord</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/cgi/">cgi</a>). </p> <p>This CGI will generate a simple text 'hit counter' for several sites. Useful to ocunt visitors to the 'front door' of your website.</p>

2004-09-06T08:18:49-07:00Michael Foordhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/1565518/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/286269-html-scraper/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 286269 by <a href="/recipes/users/1565518/">Michael Foord</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/web/">web</a>). Revision 5. </p> <p>A simple HTML 'parser' that will 'read' through an HTML file and call functions on data and tags etc. Useful if you need to implement a straightforward parser that just extracts information from the file <em>or</em> modifies tags etc.</p> <p>Shouldn't choke on bad HTML.</p>

2004-08-18T10:23:52-07:00Michael Foordhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/1565518/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/298336-http-exploring-headers-and-cookies-from-servers/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 298336 by <a href="/recipes/users/1565518/">Michael Foord</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/cgi/">cgi</a>). Revision 5. </p> <p>This CGI script allows you to specify a URL. It fetches the URL and displays all the headers sent by the server. It is based on approx.py the CGI-proxy I'm building. It includes authentication circuitry and I'm using it to understand http authentication.</p> <p>This script demostrates using urllib2 to fetch a URL - using a request object with User-Agent header. It also demostrates basic authentication and shows the possible http errors - using a dictionary 'borrowed' from BaseHTTPServer.</p> <p>It will also save cookies using the ClientCookie module, if it's available.</p>

2004-07-09T07:31:52-07:00Michael Foordhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/1565518/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/286217-cgi-shell/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 286217 by <a href="/recipes/users/1565518/">Michael Foord</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/cgi/">cgi</a>). </p> <p>Run an arbitrary string on the server as a shell command. Mimics a very basic shell environment on a server using CGI.</p>

2004-07-09T07:30:50-07:00Michael Foordhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/1565518/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/286216-cgi-shell/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 286216 by <a href="/recipes/users/1565518/">Michael Foord</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/cgi/">cgi</a>). </p> <p>Run an arbitrary string on the server as a shell command. Mimics a very basic shell environment on a server using CGI.</p>

2004-06-22T07:20:42-07:00Michael Foordhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/1565518/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/286160-cgiproxypy/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 286160 by <a href="/recipes/users/1565518/">Michael Foord</a> . </p> <p>A very simple script that fetches a webpage for you. Useful for a cgiproxy in situations where web access is restricted - and to illustrate the basic case use of urllib2.</p>

2004-07-07T06:09:12-07:00Michael Foordhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/1565518/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/286204-case-insensitive-sort/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 286204 by <a href="/recipes/users/1565518/">Michael Foord</a> . </p> <p>This is a recipe that does a case insensitive sort. The normal sort methods of lists has 'B'&lt;'a', which means that it would sort 'Pear' to come before 'apple' in a list. You can pass in a function to the sort method to change this... but this can be slow. This is a function that transforms the list, uses the sort method and then transforms it back.</p>

2004-06-19T02:58:10-07:00Michael Foordhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/1565518/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/286156-newaskstring-dialog/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 286156 by <a href="/recipes/users/1565518/">Michael Foord</a> . </p> <p>A <em>tiny</em> adjustment to the askstring dialog in the standard module tkSimpleDialog. The underlying code allows a default string to be passed to in, but the actual dialog function doesn't.. This one does.</p>

2004-06-07T10:30:31-07:00Michael Foordhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/1565518/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/283455-caselessdict/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 283455 by <a href="/recipes/users/1565518/">Michael Foord</a> . Revision 4. </p> <p>A dictionary with case insensitive keys - that retains the case of the keyword. Only permits strings as keys. An alternative implementation of <a href="http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/66315" rel="nofollow">http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/66315</a></p>

2004-05-18T05:11:45-07:00Michael Foordhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/1565518/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/284569-caselesslist/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 284569 by <a href="/recipes/users/1565518/">Michael Foord</a> . </p> <p>A list that will only allow strings as members. Methods like count, __contains__ ( a in list ), remove, index etc are case insensitive. See also the caselessDict - <a href="http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/283455" rel="nofollow">http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/283455</a></p>

2004-04-30T07:37:23-07:00Michael Foordhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/1565518/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/281056-listparse/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 281056 by <a href="/recipes/users/1565518/">Michael Foord</a> . </p> <p>Turn a string representation of a list back into a list. Including nested lists - list elements, can themselves be lists. Includes functions for quoting and unquoting list elements....</p>

2004-04-26T08:06:32-07:00Michael Foordhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/1565518/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/279407-windows-console/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 279407 by <a href="/recipes/users/1565518/">Michael Foord</a> . Revision 3. </p> <p>A simple console for windows. Any commands that don't make sense as python commands are sent to the system. Fully expandable !! You can reference variables in system commands using %: e.g. echo %fish echoes the contents of the variable fish.........</p>

2004-05-04T11:47:39-07:00Michael Foordhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/1565518/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/259180-trapping-and-displaying-exceptions/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 259180 by <a href="/recipes/users/1565518/">Michael Foord</a> . Revision 2. </p> <p>Traps exceptions - to be printed or displayed without actually raising the exception.</p> <p>Sometimes useful to get the <em>full</em> error message from an exception - this code captures it as text - to be displayed, saved or whatever.</p>

2004-01-22T05:51:44-08:00Michael Foordhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/1565518/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/266464-date-to-day-of-the-week/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 266464 by <a href="/recipes/users/1565518/">Michael Foord</a> . </p> <p>This simple function returns the day of the week (as an integer from 1 to 7) from an input date.....</p>

2004-01-09T06:10:29-08:00Michael Foordhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/1565518/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/259175-configobj-lightweight-config-file-parser/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 259175 by <a href="/recipes/users/1565518/">Michael Foord</a> . </p> <h4>A simple class of config object - allowing simple configs to be read in, updated in the file or rewritten out</h4> <h4>Preserves comments inline with the keywords</h4> <h4>Allows for multiple values - defined by the programmer what type of value a keyword is expected to have</h4> <h4>Will read only the specified values from a file - allows sections of a larger config file to be</h4> <h4>easily read and updated whilst preserving the rest of the file.</h4> <h4>outputs non-fatal error to the stout object - this could be turned into an exception handler if you wanted</h4> <h4>errors to be fatal instead of non-fatal.</h4> <p>#</p> <h4>Maintained at <a href="http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html" rel="nofollow">www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html</a></h4>

2004-01-09T06:28:44-08:00Michael Foordhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/1565518/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/259176-standout-flexible-output-object/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 259176 by <a href="/recipes/users/1565518/">Michael Foord</a> . </p> <p>A useful output object that can 'print' to various places (stdout, loggign file and potentially to a window as well) using a single command. Built to be used in conjunction with the ConfigObj - simpel config file parser.</p> <h4>maintained at <a href="http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html</a></h4>