http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/760763/top/2010-03-17T07:27:15-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2008-10-22T08:15:26-07:00Anandhttp://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>

2005-02-28T09:34:34-08:00Anandhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/760763/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/389767-timeit-module-wrapper/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 389767 by <a href="/recipes/users/760763/">Anand</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/algorithms/">algorithms</a>). Revision 4. </p> <p>A simple, easy to use wrapper function for doing quick tests of your functions using the timeit module.</p>

2003-11-06T07:14:42-08:00Anandhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/760763/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/224800-simple-file-splittercombiner-module/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 224800 by <a href="/recipes/users/760763/">Anand</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/files/">files</a>). Revision 4. </p> <p>This module can be used to split any file, text or binary to equal sized chunks. It can also combine the chunks back to recreate the original file.</p>

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>

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>

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>

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>

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>

2005-04-06T04:25:10-07:00Anandhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/760763/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/408937-basic-exception-handling-idiom-using-decorators/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 408937 by <a href="/recipes/users/760763/">Anand</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/shortcuts/">shortcuts</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>A basic exception handling idiom using decorators which allows you to re-use the exception handler for different functions, while customizing your handlers using arguments passed to an exception handling "decorator".</p>

2008-04-08T10:16:26-07:00Anandhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/760763/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/191017-backup-your-files/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 191017 by <a href="/recipes/users/760763/">Anand</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/files/">files</a>). Revision 5. </p> <p>Makes backup versions of files</p>

2004-02-25T11:45:48-08:00Anandhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/760763/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/189858-python-text-to-pdf-converter/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 189858 by <a href="/recipes/users/760763/">Anand</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/text/">text</a>). Revision 8. </p> <p>Python port of a very popular implementation of text2pdf in the C programming language. I ported this to python because it could be used as a script instead of executable which is the case with the original program. Most of the options remain the same.</p>

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>

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>

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>

2003-12-30T05:43:10-08:00Anandhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/760763/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/189744-wxpython-graphics-drawing-rubberbands-over-a-canva/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 189744 by <a href="/recipes/users/760763/">Anand</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/graphics/">graphics</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>This recipe talks about how to implement rubberbanding code for canvas objects in a wxPython application. Canvas classes in wxPython include wxPanel, wxStaticBitmap, wxGlCanvas etc.</p>

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>

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>

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>

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>

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>