en-us http://www.ActiveState.com/ASPN Copyright 2001, ActiveState SRL. aspn-feedback@ActiveState.com http://www.activestate.com/img/logo_115x35.gif http://www.ActiveState.com/ASPN 115 35 The getEps function in this module returns a text string containing the original air date for the last aired and next upcoming episodes of a TV series title. It also provides the plot for the next upcoming episode, if available. The information returned is limited to what is available at IMDb, and so it may not be up to date. IMDbPY (http://imdbpy.sourceforge.net/) is used. See code for usage information and examples. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/572193 Inspired by py.test, the unittester is a single, simple function that is easily customized. The main virtue is that tests are much clearer than with the unittest.py. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/572194 I don't want to bother installing a better media player, but I want to listen to PLS stations (Shoutcast). So here is a script you can use to play them in Windows Media Player which for some reason doesn't support them. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/572191 I live in a geographical area whose daylight savings time provisions seem to fool software. I would therefore like to avoid mentioning time zone when I create a timestamp in RFC822 format. I have looked for but could not find an elegant way of expressing what I want. In hopes that someone will see this and be aghast at my ignorance, then provide something nice, I humbly offer the following. It takes a datetime and gives back an RFC822 timestamp (I think). http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/572190 This is a simple function that runs another function in a different process by forking a new process which runs the function and waiting for the result in the parent. This can be useful for releasing resources used by the function such as memory. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/511474 A regex-based JavaScript compression kludge. The current version has been tested against mochikit and json.js, which indeed tripped up the previous version (see comments). http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/496882 kbhit on linux, the sample just prints dots until you press any key. I updated the sample to show how to implement unbuffered getch and getche safely. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/572182 Simple routine for dumping any kind of string, ascii, encoded, or unicode, to a standard hex dump. Plus read/write of unicode and encoded strings. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/572181 This recipe can separate the output of PyChecker into OK'd and regular messages. An example is included below. This is an enhanced version of the pychok recipe posted previously. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/546532 This recipe uses the win32file.FindFilesW() function to efficiently calculate total size of a folder or volume, and additionally handles cases where a cutoff size is desired or errors are encountered along the path. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/572179 A function to create and load a table in SQLite from a Microsoft Jet table, using DAO. Also recreates indexes. Fetches and loads records in blocks with a default size of 1000 rows. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/572165 My printer will not accept postscript and all i needed to print was canvas rectangles. So here is something i put together... hope it helps someone else. -works for polys, recs, and lines- http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/572175 The getHits function in this file takes as input a search term string, and returns as output a dict containing the number of web hits returned for that search term. The Google search engine and a SQLite database are used. See code for usage information. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/572173 Two simple generators for generating prime numbers using a prime sieve. gen_sieve(n) will produce all prime numbers <n, and gen_infsieve() will infinitely produce prime numbers. isprime is an example of how one could use gen_sieve: a quick function for testing primality by attempting modulo division with each potential prime factor of a number. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/535154 Workaround for the SQLite limitation that prevents multiple threads from sharing a Connection object. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/526618 I am converting Prof. David Cheriton's OO software methodology to Python. It's an approach for building industrial-strength code with a disciplined architecture, consistent naming conventions, and a rigorous division of interface from implementation. I'll be adding more of his techniques in further recipes. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/572162 This recipe allows nice and clean validation for method parameters/return values. It uses function annotations available in Python 3000 for the actual signature specification. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/572161 Most people know how to write a page with HTML and CSS. Why not using these skills to dynamically generate PDF documents using it? The open source project "pisa" http://www.htmltopdf.org enables you to to this quite simple in a pythonic way. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/572160 This module provides access to a standardized implementation of SPICE (Stephen's Power-Inspired, Computerized Encryption). This code has just been revised and rewritten. As such it may still contain bugs that were not found after testing the code. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/572159