Category: Python

PyObjC and how to parse Preview.app bookmarks with Python

I wrote a Python program that parses Preview.app's bookmarks. The program itself is probably of dubious use, but it illustrates some interesting techniques like using class-dump to figure out how programs written in Objective-C...

ProgrammingPython

Contributed support for the Etsy V2 API to etsy-python

My sister is an avid Etsy seller and asked me to write for her some software that would let her take hundreds of items from an Excel spreadsheet and post them to Etsy. I've written this software (actually, it's a hosted web...

Python

Python Evaluator AppleScript

A few weeks ago, I talked about a Bash function and alias combo that lets you evaluate simple Python expressions from the Bash command-line. In a similar vein, here's a super simple GUI app, written in AppleScript that evaluates...

Python

Creating a gist from the command-line

GitHub's Gist API doesn't yet have an API call for creating a new gist. So to write a command-line utility to create gists, I had to do a little old-fashioned screen scraping with Python and mechanize....

Python

django-admin.py patch to add warning for missing “startproject” subcommand.

A while back, I mentioned that django-admin.py will not show the "startproject" command if you have a DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable set. This behavior is documented, but it can still confuse the heck out of anyone...

ProgrammingPython

Python ternary operator

Today's Python discovery: Python doesn't have the C style ?: ternary operator (e.g.: cond ? valueIfTrue : valueIfFalse). But as of Python 2.5 it has a ternary operator with its own syntax: value_when_true if condition else...

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TiVo HME SDK for Python

Just stumbled up on this (via TiVoBlog who in turn found it via TiVo Lovers) and will have to give it a try sometime: From TiVo HME SDK for Python: An implementation of TiVoâ€™s HME (Home Media Extensions) protocol for...