I wrote a python CLI program to use the mobile friendfeed publisher at https://masnun.com/ff/.
It just posts the credentials to the mobile page, then the mobile page makes the update to friendfeed.
Source: http://myfriendfeed.googlecode.com/files/friendfeed.py
In my previous post, I have published the source codes to build a CLI php app to update your twitter status. Here comes the Python version…. It’s been a pain… took me 15 long minutes to cook it… I was having trouble with the basic authorization twitter requires. I am using Python 3 and had to make the basic auth credentials encoded into binary, base64 encode the binary and then decode the returned binary back into a string before I could use it to authorize :(.
Finally, it’s done and I am very much delighted with it… It asks for your username, password and finally the status when run. Feed it the information and it’ll do the job for you…
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import sys; from urllib.request import urlopen,Request; import base64; username = input("Username: "); password = input("Password: "); url = "http://www.twitter.com/statuses/update.xml"; status = input("Enter Status: "); data ="status="+status; req = Request(url); req.data = data; req.headers['Authorization'] = 'Basic %s' % (base64.b64encode((username + ":" + password).encode())).decode(); # req.headers['User-Agent'] = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.20) Gecko/20081217 Firefox/2.0.0.20'; urlopen(req); |
Thanks to Python… Ireally love it 🙂
The printf() function was most probably introduced in C. The function, as most of the programmers know, prints formatted string according to a given format. PHP, being derived from C, has the same function with some added features. But in Python, the function is totally excluded 🙁
Python developers believe that there should be two seperate procedures to print a formatted string – format a string and then print it. So python has a different mechanism of doing the task.
Lets see some language specific examples:
C:
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# include <stdio.h> int main() { printf("%s is a string while %d is a number","maSnun",23); } |
PHP:
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<?php printf("%s is a string while %d is a number","maSnun",23); ?> |
Python: (Python 3)
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s = "%s is a string while %d is a number" % ("maSnun", 23) print(s) |
Here, we format a string using the % (Modulo sign) or string formatting operator or the interpolation operator. If there was a single argument required for the formatting, we would simply pass it after the second modulo. Example:
s = “%s is a string ” % “maSnun”
But if we need to pass more than one argument to the formatting operator, we will have to pass a tuple of the arguments (like I have done in the first example). A tuple is an ordered collection which cannot be modified once it has been created. In other words, it’s rather like a read only array.
More About Tuples
You set up a tuple with round brackets (not
the square brackets you use to set up a list),
but you then access the individual members of
either with square brackets. That means that
you can use common code to process an ordered
collection, whether it’s a list or a tupledemo = (1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, “lots”)