Popular recipes by andy mckay http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/92886/2001-12-06T18:47:01-08:00ActiveState Code RecipesCheck web page exists (Python) 2001-12-06T18:47:01-08:00andy mckayhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/92886/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/101276-check-web-page-exists/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 101276 by <a href="/recipes/users/92886/">andy mckay</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/cgi/">cgi</a>). Revision 4. </p> <p>For when you need to check a web page is still working.</p> Looping through multiple lists (Python) 2001-06-29T16:53:42-07:00andy mckayhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/92886/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/65285-looping-through-multiple-lists/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 65285 by <a href="/recipes/users/92886/">andy mckay</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/shortcuts/">shortcuts</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>Often you need to loop through every item of multiple lists and compare them. This can be done without a using a counter.</p> Find IE Cookie (Python) 2001-10-12T15:16:05-07:00andy mckayhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/92886/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/80443-find-ie-cookie/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 80443 by <a href="/recipes/users/92886/">andy mckay</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/web/">web</a>). Revision 5. </p> <p>This script looks through your IE Cookies and returns a value of the chosen cookie</p> Manipulating Windows Services (Python) 2001-05-30T18:01:14-07:00andy mckayhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/92886/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/59872-manipulating-windows-services/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 59872 by <a href="/recipes/users/92886/">andy mckay</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/sysadmin/">sysadmin</a>). </p> <p>Its easy to mess with Windows Service using Python.</p> Finding the intersection of two dicts (Python) 2001-06-19T16:28:37-07:00andy mckayhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/92886/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/59875-finding-the-intersection-of-two-dicts/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 59875 by <a href="/recipes/users/92886/">andy mckay</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/shortcuts/">shortcuts</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>A simple little task, how to find the intersection of two hashes. There's probably many ways to do this but there is one way to avoid...</p> Get the Windows service name from the long name (Python) 2001-09-20T22:03:15-07:00andy mckayhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/92886/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/66311-get-the-windows-service-name-from-the-long-name/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 66311 by <a href="/recipes/users/92886/">andy mckay</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/sysadmin/">sysadmin</a>). Revision 3. </p> <p>Many programs only show the long service description such as 'Windows Time', but this recipe finds you the actual service name.</p> Getting a value from a dictionary (Python) 2001-05-29T09:51:54-07:00andy mckayhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/92886/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/59866-getting-a-value-from-a-dictionary/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 59866 by <a href="/recipes/users/92886/">andy mckay</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/shortcuts/">shortcuts</a>). </p> <p>Want to get a value from a dictionary but want to make sure that the value exists in the dictionary? Then use the incredibly useful get method.</p> Using xml-rpc (Python) 2001-08-17T00:13:10-07:00andy mckayhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/92886/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/56034-using-xml-rpc/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 56034 by <a href="/recipes/users/92886/">andy mckay</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/xml/">xml</a>). Revision 4. </p> <p>This simple recipe shows how you can pull recipes from O'Reilly's meerkat service using xml-rpc.</p>