Search results for category: python

Cleaning documents polluted by copy-paste from MSWord
by Izak Burger — on Sep 16, 2011 —

• plone
• python

How to compile python2.4 packages for newer versions of ubuntu
by Izak Burger — on Aug 16, 2011 —

• python
• sysadmin
• zope

Since Jaunty Jackalope, Ubuntu linux no longer ships with python2.4. You can compile it from source, but if you are like me, you want a package.

A decorator for doing things in a subprocess
by Izak Burger — on Jul 23, 2009 —

• python

If you need to fork or drop privileges often, this will help.

Import * considered harmful
by Izak Burger — on Apr 02, 2009 —

• python

This is old news, but it needs to be said again.

Using Zope schemas with a complex vocabulary and multi-select fields
by Izak Burger — on Mar 26, 2009 —

• python
• zope

Using multi-select fields beyond the obvious simple examples is not well documented. This is my attempt to explain a way to do this.

Logsplit
by Izak Burger — on Dec 19, 2008 —

• python
• sysadmin

A Log File Splitter

SpreadMirror
by Izak Burger — on Dec 16, 2008 —

• python
• sysadmin
• zope

This is a simple tool I implemented to synchronise files between a cluster of machines.

Nanosleep for python 2.4
by Izak Burger — on Sep 18, 2008 —

• python
• zope

This is a short story about how I came to implement nanosleep for python 2.4.