Snipplr - Twain

(Python) Indent XML using ElementTree

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:29:50 GMT

This is a custom function in the elementree documenation, copied here for reference.

(Python) Read UTF-16 with NULL's, as received from the SQL Server "bcp" utility

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:31:07 GMT

Read a windows UTF-16 file (such as a BCP dump from SQL Server) that contains ASCII characters and occasional nulls

(Other) Tweaked Quake 3 Arena autoexec.cfg

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:20:17 GMT

This autoexec.cfg sets up keybindings and graphics for multiplayer Quake 3 Arena

(Python) MP3 checksum in ID3 tag

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:28:42 GMT

Creates an MD5 checksums for MP3 files and stores the checksum in an ID3v2 UID (Universal IDentifier) tag. It skips ID3 tags in the calculation. This way you can check for corruption later on, if you notice some file is jumping.

(Python) Ubuntu Mirror

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:53:01 GMT

Creates a specialised mirror Ubuntu for a single version, architecture and language - reducing the space required for the mirror from humongous to about 17 gigabytes. Such a local mirror is handy for Ubuntu machines that lack a nearby or cheap internet connection.

(Python) Recursive MD5

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:51:16 GMT

Recursively calculates, checks and updates "md5sum" files. Has renaming detection. Handy for directories of files that aren't suppose to change, but may get renamed. Also has some code taken from my mp3md5.py to provide an option ignore ID3 tags on .mp3 files. The blog post has some details on how Windows users can integrate it into the Explorer context menu (http://grahamweekly.blogspot.com/2007/04/md5dir.html)

(JavaScript) Read local file with XmlHttpRequest

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:59:44 GMT

For a locally saved web app, this is a cross-browser way to read files (writing not implemented).

(Python) Magical self update

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:58:03 GMT

Just call "selfupdate()" in a method and all local variables are magically assigned to self (except for "self", of course). Less magical is update(self, locals())