I discovered that my notes on capturing the ello feed were out of date and have corrected the page in that the stuff about ello is now useless. This page holds the general notes I made about web scripting. They may be equally out of date but I am not yet ready to delete them. My [old] notes are below/overleaf. Continue reading “Browser Scripting”
How easy it is it to write and deploy to Google App Engine? Continue reading “Google App Engine”
It’s a very long time since I have had to deal with binary code translations, but when dealing with HTML and JSON with Python, I need to get to grips with it. The € symbol for instance requires the extended character set support and rss should be written in utf-8. This page collects the notes I made in learning about Python’s support for unicode/ascii translations. Continue reading “Unicode in Python”
MAXQ is a web proxy with recording and replay features. It is designed to capture and replay tests. They are quite keen that one understands the terms of use of target sites since many prohibit automated access and these days it would seem defend themselves against it. This article documents how to run MaxQ and make tests, but not how to successfully run them. (If that’s why you’ve come here, look elsewhere but if you have answers please comment here. ) Continue reading “Web Site Testing with MaxQ”
While working on converting ello.json to rss, I needed to convert the date formats, I needed to do it in Python and found the following code worked, using strptime and strfmtime. I had to augment the date string with the name of the day of the week attribute, so felt it had to via a date data type. (This is an important part of the requirement, since otherwise string manipulation would have been enough.) Finding exampes was hard, so I hope it helps, Continue reading “Converting dates to strings using Python”
In order to export the ello.co feed, I need to convert the JSON to XML. This isn’t the first time I have needed to look at this sort of problem and so I have created a page to hold my notes. I have put these things together in a python script, and posted it to github, in a repo called ello2rss. Continue reading “JSON to XML”
I needed to install WAMP on my PC, to support some Amazon developments; I needed a screen interface to my database. Here are some notes and links. I talk about installation, and port conflicts. I might expand the install notes to include advice on mysql security. Continue reading “WAMP”
This post was written in 2013 and I discovered in May 2018 that most of the links failed. It’s been a while, and it surprises me that my little wiki has lasted longer than the resources I point to, but not here. I could have deleted this post, but chose not to; I have heavily edited it so it’s as much a diary as the technical note it once was.
I missed the announcement that Twitter were upgrading their API. I only discovered it when they ran their “test blackouts”. It has broken. This means my ‘mingle’, friend feed and hence facebook feeds are now without my twitter goodness. The rest of this post lists then contemporary resources to help rescue the feeds. Continue reading “Twitter API V1.1 (Deprecated)”
I started using Planet in about 2008 2006, it would seem? I rapidly came too “Planet Venus” and this article was originally written during that time, and was copied from the snipsnap wiki, itself copied from my sun blog. This article focuses on installation and administration. It includes links to my scripts. It was heavily amended in June 2020 in thanks to the location of my tools and Sam’s code being on github. Continue reading “Planet Planet”
I returned to Python in Oct 2010.
I have two problems to solve,
This article contains notes started in 2011, I did not make this an omnibus entry and it is very sketchy, covering file I/O, date & time, dictionaries vs. lists and PYTHONPATH. Continue reading “Python”
It has to be Python
Don’t ask.
Here are some links
An example of using datetime is
import time import datetime now=datetime.datetime.now() #now.tzinfo = 'GMT'; # fails, now.tzinfo is immutable print now.ctime() print now.isoformat() print now.tzinfo
but otherwise produces the following output
Fri Jan 2 15:15:07 2009 2009-01-02T15:15:07.896000 None
I performed these tests on a windows XP box. tzinfo is empty is this a windows/configuration thing? I can test this with UNIX. I tried setting the TZ variable before running the program and it makes no difference. I found one reference that says Python datetime doesn’t do TimeZones.
Obviously, using the from statement would change the call syntax
from datetime import datetime now=datetime.now()
should work