http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/formats-conversion-excel/2017-03-12T23:10:48-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2016-12-17T19:08:33-08:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580736-xtopdf-publish-delimiter-separated-values-dsv-data/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 580736 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/commandline/">commandline</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/csv/">csv</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/data/">data</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/files/">files</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/formats/">formats</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf_generation/">pdf_generation</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python/">python</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/tsv/">tsv</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/utilities/">utilities</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xtopdf/">xtopdf</a>). </p> <p>This recipe shows how to publish delimiter-separated values (a commonly used tabular data format) to PDF, using the xtopdf toolkit for PDF creation. It lets the user specify the delimiter via one of two command-line options - an ASCII code or an ASCII character. As Unix filters tend to do, it can operate either on standard input or on input filenames given as command-line arguments. In the case of multiple inputs via files, each input goes to a separate PDF output file.</p>

2017-03-12T23:10:48-07:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580762-number-of-bits-needed-to-store-an-integer-and-its-/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 580762 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/binary/">binary</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/formats/">formats</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/integers/">integers</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/numbers/">numbers</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/representation/">representation</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/type/">type</a>). </p> <p>This recipe shows how to find, via Python code, the number of bits needed to store an integer, and how to generate its binary representation. It does this for integers from 0 to 256.</p> <p>More details and full output here:</p> <p><a href="https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2017/03/find-number-of-bits-needed-to-store.html" rel="nofollow">https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2017/03/find-number-of-bits-needed-to-store.html</a></p>

2015-08-04T20:08:29-07:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/579093-converting-numeric-strings-to-integers/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 579093 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/formats/">formats</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/numbers/">numbers</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/numerical/">numerical</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python/">python</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python2/">python2</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/representation/">representation</a>). </p> <p>This recipe shows how to convert numeric strings into integers, i.e. it emulates the Python int() function - partially. It does not handle negative numbers, floating point numbers, or numbers in other bases than decimal. It is only meant as a simple demo of the steps by which a string containing an integer value, is converted into an actual integer, in Python (and similarly, in other languages).</p>

2010-01-09T22:46:42-08:00Karl Dickmanhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172760/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576996-rfc-822-style-parser/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 576996 by <a href="/recipes/users/4172760/">Karl Dickman</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/data/">data</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/formats/">formats</a>). Revision 7. </p> <p>In <em>The Art of Unix Programming</em>, Eric S. Raymond describes a data file metaformat based on RFC 822. [http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch05s02.html#id2902039] This is a simple parser for that format.</p>