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Python

Simple Console Clock for Windows with Python

Post author By masnun
Post date May 27, 2009

The code is self explanatory:

Python 3 Source Code:

from threading import Timer # import the Timer class
import os # import os library
import time # import time library
def main(): # define the main function
	os.system("cls") # Windows: Clear the console (Remove last printout)
	print("Time: "+time.ctime(time.time())) # Display the time
	t = Timer(1,main) # Instantiate the Timer() object with 1 sec interval -- Recursive
	t.start() # Start the timer

if __name__ == "__main__": # Check if the script is being executed from console
	main() # Start the program

from threading import Timer # import the Timer class

import os # import os library

import time # import time library

def main(): # define the main function

os.system("cls") # Windows: Clear the console (Remove last printout)

print("Time: "+time.ctime(time.time())) # Display the time

t = Timer(1,main) # Instantiate the Timer() object with 1 sec interval -- Recursive

t.start() # Start the timer

if __name__ == "__main__": # Check if the script is being executed from console

main() # Start the program

It displays a clock on Windows Command Prompt and updates it every second. It mainly demonstrates the Timer object of threading library.

PHP

PHP-GTK: App to update Twitter

Post author By masnun
Post date May 15, 2009
2 Comments on PHP-GTK: App to update Twitter

People who have been in touch for a while might have noticed how much twitter addict I have suddenly become. Today, I wrote a php-gtk program to update my twitter status. I developed it using php-gtk2 and cURL.

I was having a lot of troubles developing it. I was using “thread safe” php while GTK is “nts (non thread safe)”. I managed a non thread safe php5 but problems raised with the cURL library. The required dependencies for cURL and mysql were not available with that package. I had to copy those specific files from another package. Again, I was getting confused as the app failed to load cURL repeatedly though I had it enabled in php.ini. Later I found out that when I copied the dependencies, I have also copied a “php-cli.ini” which was substituting the default php.ini since php was running in the CLI mode.

Finally it’s done. I am still a beginner at php-gtk. I didn’t write the program from scratch. I copy-pasted some codes from my other projects and php-gtk manual. But this program is going to be a good source of inspiration for me. I really like php-gtk. I am gonna dig a bit deeper whenever I get some time to spare.

Download: http://masnun.googlecode.com/files/twitter_php_gtk.php

Python

Python tool to expand short URLs

Post author By masnun
Post date May 11, 2009

In one of my last posts, I posted a code snippet which demonstrated how to use php to expand short URLs to their original long form. Here’s the Python version I coded a few minutes ago.

Python 3:

import http.client
from urllib.parse import urlparse
url = input("\nEnter URL:\n>>>").strip()
t = urlparse(url)
print("\n-----Connecting-----\n\n")
conn = http.client.HTTPConnection(t.netloc)
conn.request("GET", t.path)
print(conn.getresponse().getheader("Location"))
print("\n\n");

import http.client

from urllib.parse import urlparse

url = input("\nEnter URL:\n>>>").strip()

t = urlparse(url)

print("\n-----Connecting-----\n\n")

conn = http.client.HTTPConnection(t.netloc)

conn.request("GET", t.path)

print(conn.getresponse().getheader("Location"))

print("\n\n");

These codes are for Python 3. The tool was developed for CLI use.

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