python Blog Posts

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• W3C Command-line Validator

  Apr 29, 2011 · python · validator · W3C

  A command-line script (written in Python) for validating HTML and CSS files and URLs using the WC3 validators.

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• Bottle + MongoDB Example

  Mar 17, 2011 · Bottle · MongoDB · python

  A didactic Web application written in Python to illustrate how to use the Bottle web-framework with the MongoDB database.

  It’s a port I made of Mike Dirolf’s DjanMon application (how to use Django with MongoDB).

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• Merging and Compacting VirtualBox Snapshots

  Jun 17, 2010 · python · VirtualBox

  Using the VirtualBox GUI to manually merge lots of snapshots is time consuming and fiddly so I wrote a Python script called vboxmerge.py to do this automatically. The script merges a snapshot branch into the base VDI with a single command (it also illustrates how easy it is to script VirtualBox using Python).

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• Command-line SMS script

  Mar 23, 2010 · clickatell · commandline · python · sms

  Note: The current version of this app is written in CoffeeScript and is published in the npm package registry.

  A simple Python command-line script I wrote to send SMS messages using Clickatell’s HTTP API. In addition it:

  • Records sent messages in a log and has command option to view log file.
  • Has command options to query the Clickatell account balance and the status of previously sent messages.
  • Configuration can include a list of phone numbers.

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