http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/786815/2005-09-21T20:52:45-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2005-09-21T20:52:45-07:00Robert McDermotthttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/786815/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/440588-human-verification-test-captcha/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 440588 by <a href="/recipes/users/786815/">Robert McDermott</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/graphics/">graphics</a>). Revision 3. </p> <p>The gen_captcha function generates an image containing text that’s easy for a human to read, but difficult for a computer. This allows you create a test to tell humans and computers apart. (requires PIL)</p>

2005-09-06T15:39:26-07:00Robert McDermotthttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/786815/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/440526-misspell-words-to-avoid-detection/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 440526 by <a href="/recipes/users/786815/">Robert McDermott</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/text/">text</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>The misspell class takes a string and slightly mangles it by randomly transposing two adjacent characters while leaving the first and last characters intact. The resulting text is almost completely misspelled but still completely readable. Words less than four characters, numbers, email addresses and URLs are untouched. Each run will produce a message with a different signature (checksum).</p>

2005-09-21T20:45:19-07:00Robert McDermotthttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/786815/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/440504-persistently-monitored-collection-class/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 440504 by <a href="/recipes/users/786815/">Robert McDermott</a> . Revision 2. </p> <p>The collection class allows you to persistently monitor a collection of items. It reports on which items are new to the collection, which items have left the collection and the age in seconds of each item in the collection.</p>