http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4119187/2011-09-18T21:29:17-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2011-09-18T21:29:17-07:00Brian Davishttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4119187/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/553270-using-pyhook-to-block-windows-keys/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 553270 by <a href="/recipes/users/4119187/">Brian Davis</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/sysadmin/">sysadmin</a>). </p> <p>Normally you do NOT want to block operating system key combinations but there are a few legitimate cases where you do. In my case I am making a pygame script for my 1 year old to bang on the keyboard and see/hear shapes/color/sounds in response. Brian Fischer on the pygame mailing list pointed me to pyHook. This example was taken from here: <a href="http://www.mindtrove.info/articles/pyhook.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.mindtrove.info/articles/pyhook.html</a> and modified to use the pygame event system.</p>

2008-03-17T10:38:07-07:00Brian Davishttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4119187/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/551773-remove-duplicate-files/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 551773 by <a href="/recipes/users/4119187/">Brian Davis</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/files/">files</a>). </p> <p>A little script to remove duplicate files. Uses md5sum and a dictionary. There may be a shorter way to do it but this was simple. Works only on cygwin/Linux/Unix systems.</p>

2008-01-24T16:26:43-08:00Brian Davishttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4119187/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/543265-data-processing-shell/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 543265 by <a href="/recipes/users/4119187/">Brian Davis</a> . </p> <p>I've found that I frequently need to open a file, do some processing on it and then load it into excel. This script provides a nice interface for opening the file using a wxPython dialog box, some code to load the result .csv file into excel using win32com and a function to contain the processing code. I should probably turn this into a module sometime...</p>