Popular recipes by Anand http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/760763/2010-03-17T07:27:15-07:00ActiveState Code RecipesYet again, one more enum for Python (Python) 2010-02-22T22:53:42-08:00Anandhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/760763/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577063-yet-again-one-more-enum-for-python/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 577063 by <a href="/recipes/users/760763/">Anand</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/enum/">enum</a>). </p> <p>This is a fork of recipe #577024 which describes an enum type for Python using __slots__ and read-only variables. Apart from the enum with default positional argument values, this one adds another enum type using keyword arguments.</p> Pyscanlogger - Python Port scan detector (Python) 2010-03-17T07:27:15-07:00Anandhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/760763/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576690-pyscanlogger-python-port-scan-detector/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 576690 by <a href="/recipes/users/760763/">Anand</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/network/">network</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/programs/">programs</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/security/">security</a>). Revision 5. </p> <p>A pure Python program to detect network port scanning attacks. Currently logs different TCP port scans. Can run in the background like a daemon and log attacks to a log file.</p> TwitterCmd - Interactive console for twittering (Python) 2009-10-08T02:15:19-07:00Anandhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/760763/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576923-twittercmd-interactive-console-for-twittering/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 576923 by <a href="/recipes/users/760763/">Anand</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/command/">command</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/microblogging/">microblogging</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/shortcuts/">shortcuts</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/twitter/">twitter</a>). Revision 4. </p> <p>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.</p> Pretty-print XML (Python) 2009-05-13T07:47:45-07:00Anandhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/760763/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576750-pretty-print-xml/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 576750 by <a href="/recipes/users/760763/">Anand</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/text/">text</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xml/">xml</a>). </p> <p>One-liner to pretty print an XML file using xml.dom.minidom.</p> Chat server & client using select.select (Python) 2007-09-28T08:57:53-07:00Anandhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/760763/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/531824-chat-server-client-using-selectselect/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 531824 by <a href="/recipes/users/760763/">Anand</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/network/">network</a>). Revision 3. </p> <p>This recipe demos how to write a simple command line chat server &amp; client using multiplexing using select.select. The server uses select call to multiplex multiple clients and the client uses it to multiplex command line &amp; socket I/O.</p> List classes, methods and functions in a module (Python) 2008-10-22T08:15:26-07:00Anandhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/760763/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/553262-list-classes-methods-and-functions-in-a-module/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 553262 by <a href="/recipes/users/760763/">Anand</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/programs/">programs</a>). Revision 5. </p> <p>The recipe provides a method "describe" which takes a module as argument and describes classes, methods and functions in the module. The method/function description provides information on the function/method arguments using the inspect module.</p> Multithreaded FIFO Gate (Python) 2008-09-08T08:29:14-07:00Anandhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/760763/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576418-multithreaded-fifo-gate/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 576418 by <a href="/recipes/users/760763/">Anand</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/semaphores/">semaphores</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/synchronization/">synchronization</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/system/">system</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/threading/">threading</a>). Revision 5. </p> <p>While programming with multiple threads, sometimes one needs a construct which allows to suspend the execution of a set of running threads. This is normally required by an outside thread which wants to suspend the running threads for performing a specific action. The threads need to resume after the action in the same order in which they got suspended. </p> <p>A thread gate (or gateway) allows you to do this. It acts like a gate through which only one thread can pass at a time. By default the gate is open, allowing all threads to "enter" the gate. When a thread calls "close", the gate is closed, blocking any threads which make a further call to "enter", till the gate is re-opened by the owner, whence the threads resume the order in which they got blocked.</p> <p>The real-life parallel for this is a human operated level cross, which allows only one vehicle to pass at a time.</p> Spin Cursor (Python) 2007-10-31T13:22:40-07:00Anandhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/760763/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/534142-spin-cursor/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 534142 by <a href="/recipes/users/760763/">Anand</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/threads/">threads</a>). </p> <p>A class providing a threaded spin cursor on the console.</p> Text to PDF Converter (rewrite) (Python) 2007-09-26T13:32:30-07:00Anandhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/760763/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/532908-text-to-pdf-converter-rewrite/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 532908 by <a href="/recipes/users/760763/">Anand</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/text/">text</a>). Revision 3. </p> <p>This is a rewrite of my text2pdf converter posted as recipe #189858, which can be used to convert pure text files to PDF.</p> Twisted XML RPC server with basic HTTP authentication (Python) 2007-08-09T09:48:48-07:00Anandhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/760763/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/526625-twisted-xml-rpc-server-with-basic-http-authenticat/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 526625 by <a href="/recipes/users/760763/">Anand</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/web/">web</a>). Revision 3. </p> <p>This recipe illustrates an XML RPC server using twisted with support for HTTP basic client authentication.</p> Synchronization classes using decorators (Python) 2007-10-08T19:15:42-07:00Anandhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/760763/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/533135-synchronization-classes-using-decorators/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 533135 by <a href="/recipes/users/760763/">Anand</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/threads/">threads</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>This recipe provides decorator classes that can be used to transparently provide synchronization and access control to your resources.</p> Bitsort algorithm (Python) 2007-09-11T01:47:23-07:00Anandhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/760763/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/528942-bitsort-algorithm/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 528942 by <a href="/recipes/users/760763/">Anand</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/algorithms/">algorithms</a>). </p> <p>The recipe illustrates a Python implementation of the bitsort algorithm. This algorithm is illustrated in the book "Programming Pearls" by Jon Bentley. The bitsort algorithm provides a very efficient way to sort large numbers in disk files.</p> A python replacement for java.util.Properties (Python) 2006-07-28T08:52:19-07:00Anandhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/760763/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/496795-a-python-replacement-for-javautilproperties/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 496795 by <a href="/recipes/users/760763/">Anand</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/files/">files</a>). Revision 5. </p> <p>This recipe provides a quick and easy way to process Java properties files using pure Python. Of course, Jython can always be used, but in situations where Jython cannot be used, this recipe provides a sure-fire drop-in replacement. The Properties class is modelled to duplicate the behaviour of the original as closely as possible.</p> Composite design-pattern using dictionaries (Python) 2006-11-07T08:39:25-08:00Anandhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/760763/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/498249-composite-design-pattern-using-dictionaries/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 498249 by <a href="/recipes/users/760763/">Anand</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/oop/">oop</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>The recipe illustrates the composite design pattern by using hierarchical dictionaries. It can be used to process hierarchical, tree-based data structures using Python dictionaries.</p> Mini-commands using subprocess (Python) 2006-09-26T07:38:58-07:00Anandhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/760763/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/498137-mini-commands-using-subprocess/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 498137 by <a href="/recipes/users/760763/">Anand</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/sysadmin/">sysadmin</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>A set of template classes which allows to develop custom "mini-command" classes which allow to execute any system command and customize the execution using template strings.</p> Amaze - An object-oriented maze generator/solver in Python (Python) 2006-07-26T15:04:50-07:00Anandhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/760763/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/496884-amaze-an-object-oriented-maze-generatorsolver-in-p/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 496884 by <a href="/recipes/users/760763/">Anand</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/algorithms/">algorithms</a>). Revision 10. </p> <p>This is a simple maze generator &amp; solver written in Python. It is written as a game, consisting of classes which can read mazes from STDIN or a file. It provides a a random maze generator game, which can generate mazes of any dimension and solve it. Use it for fun and learning.</p> A basic time profiler (Python) 2006-08-03T20:39:37-07:00Anandhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/760763/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/496938-a-basic-time-profiler/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 496938 by <a href="/recipes/users/760763/">Anand</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/shortcuts/">shortcuts</a>). </p> <p>This recipe provides a very simple time profiling module which helps you to measure actual execution time for blocks of Python code without peppering your code with many time.time() statements.</p> YARW - Yet Another Registry Wrapper (Python) 2006-04-05T07:13:16-07:00Anandhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/760763/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/476229-yarw-yet-another-registry-wrapper/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 476229 by <a href="/recipes/users/760763/">Anand</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/sysadmin/">sysadmin</a>). Revision 3. </p> <p>This recipe provides "Registry", a Windows registry wrapper class that makes it easy to work with the Windows registry. The class works with an inner class named "RegistryKey", which wraps up a Windows registry key and provides methods to access and manipulate the key information. The class provides easy to remember substitutes for long method names of _winreg.</p> Simple XML serlializer/de-serializer using Python dictionaries and marshalling (Python) 2005-06-07T09:13:40-07:00Anandhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/760763/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/415983-simple-xml-serlializerde-serializer-using-python-d/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 415983 by <a href="/recipes/users/760763/">Anand</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/xml/">xml</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>This recipe presents a way of serializing &amp; de-serializing XML using the marshal module. The XML is converted to an equivalent Python dictionary first, which is marshaled to serialize it. De-serialization first unmarshals the dictionary from the file, and constructs the original XML.</p> 'Zip walker' - Zip file tree generator (Python) 2005-06-16T02:54:02-07:00Anandhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/760763/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/425840-zip-walker-zip-file-tree-generator/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 425840 by <a href="/recipes/users/760763/">Anand</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/files/">files</a>). </p> <p>A generator which provides a quick way to 'walk' a zip file archive. The generator can process multiple zip archives, i.e zip files which contain zip files. Inspired by the os.walk function.</p>