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Commands tagged python

Terminal - Commands tagged python - 46 results

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

2011-08-29 03:19:26

User: ravikiran7785

Functions: python

Tags: python

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put current directory in LAN quickly

This works on all versions of python 2.X.

Tested on Linux and bundled python versions on Mac OSX and Solaris / UNIX

Note: Serves globally on port 8000.

Ctrl+c to stop.

Don't start the server and leave it on a internet connected machine. :)

python3 -m http.server

2011-08-29 00:52:21

User: kev

Tags: python

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put current directory in LAN quickly

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$sudo aptitude install python-virtualenv; virtualenv --no-site-packages jpaenv; source jpaenv/bin/activate

2011-04-21 08:28:18

User: moulip

Functions: install

Tags: python virtual environment

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Python virtual-env creation

Python virtual environment creation.

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find . -type f -name "*.pyc" -delete;

2011-01-14 13:12:13

User: slav0nic

Functions: find

Tags: bash python

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Clean all .pyc files from current project. It cleans all the files recursively.

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:ret

2010-12-13 05:03:10

User: light13

Tags: vim python

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retab in vim, tab to space or space to tab, useful in python

usage：

:[rang]ret[!][tabstop value]

python is indent sensitive, after command

:set list

you may see your codes are mixed with tab and space

ret can help you to convert space to tab or tab to space

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calc() { bc <<< $*; }

2010-10-07 08:44:28

User: hemanth

Functions: bc

Tags: bash function python calc

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Command line calculator

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calc() { python -c "from math import *; print $1"; }

2010-10-07 08:26:39

User: asmaier

Functions: python

Tags: bash function python calc

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Command line calculator

This function defines a command line calculator that handles everything pythons math module can handle, e.g. trigonometric functions, sqrt, log, erf, ... (see http://docs.python.org/library/math.html). It even knows about the constants pi and e.

vim ... :nmap <F5> :w^M:!python %<CR>

2010-09-03 18:44:21

User: duxklr

Functions: vim

Tags: vim python

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Using vim to save and run your python script.

This will save and execute your python script every time your press the F5 function key.

It can also be added to your .vimrc:

autocmd BufRead *.py nmap :w^M:!python %

NOTE: the ^M is not just caret-M, it can be created by type: ctrl-v ctrl-m

filterous -dntb --tag Bash < bookmarks.xml

2010-07-07 07:42:11

User: l0b0

Tags: bash delicious python search

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Delicious search with human readable output

You can install filterous with

sudo apt-get install libxslt1-dev; sudo easy_install -U filterous

curl -s "http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/json?count=5" | python -m json.tool | less -R

This is sample output - yours may be different.

[
    {
        "d": "22 Useful Online Chart & Graph Generators | Tools", 
        "dt": "2010-03-24T00:00:00Z", 
        "t": [
            "charts", 
            "tools", 
            "chart", 
            "generator", 
            "graph", 
            "online", 
            "graphs", 
            "web", 
            "design", 
            "webdesign"
        ], 
        "u": "http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/22-useful-chart-graph-diagram-generators/"
    }, 
    {
        "d": "Official Google Data APIs Blog: Bringing OpenID and OAuth Together", 
        "dt": "2010-03-24T00:00:00Z", 
        "t": [
            "openid", 
            "oauth", 
            "google", 
            "identity", 
            "security", 
            "authentication", 
            "api", 
            "plaxo", 
            "protocol", 
            "data"
        ], 
        "u": "http://googledataapis.blogspot.com/2009/01/bringing-openid-and-oauth-together.html"
    }, 
    {
        "d": "Great Girl Manipulations by Digital Artist Michael O. | Abduzeedo - design inspiration and tutorials", 
        "dt": "2010-03-24T00:00:00Z", 
        "t": [
            "photoshop", 
            "art", 
            "photography", 
            "inspiration", 
            "design", 
            "photos", 
            "women", 
            "blog", 
            "awesome", 
            "cool"
        ], 
        "u": "http://abduzeedo.com/great-girl-manipulations-digital-artist-michael-o"
    }, 
    {
        "d": "Nightline Face-Off - ABC News", 
        "dt": "2010-03-24T00:00:00Z", 
        "t": [
            "debate", 
            "satan", 
            "theology", 
            "video", 
            "driscoll", 
            "news", 
            "education", 
            "religion", 
            "faceoff", 
            "television"
        ], 
        "u": "http://www.abcnews.go.com/Nightline/FaceOff/"
    }, 
    {
        "d": "How Twitter and Facebook Make Us More Productive | Magazine", 
        "dt": "2010-03-24T00:00:00Z", 
        "t": [
            "twitter", 
            "facebook", 
            "productivity", 
            "socialmedia", 
            "creativity", 
            "wired", 
            "research", 
            "social", 
            "socialnetworking", 
            "work"
        ], 
        "u": "http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/st_essay_distraction/"
    }
]

2010-03-24 09:15:12

User: keimlink

Functions: less python

Tags: curl http python json validation

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JSON processing with Python

Validates and pretty-prints the content fetched from the URL.

python -c "import platform; print platform.node()"

2010-03-24 09:09:34

User: keimlink

Functions: python

Tags: hostname python networking

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Print your local hostname with python

pydoc -p 8888 & gnome-open http://localhost:8888

2010-02-28 07:01:43

User: haivu

Tags: python help

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Start a HTTP server which serves Python docs

I use this command to start a local Python document server over HTTP port 8888.

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python -c "import socket; s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM); s.connect(('google.com', 80)); print s.getsockname()[0]"

2009-12-29 19:17:03

User: whiteinge

Functions: python

Tags: python ip address

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Get your public ip

Requires Python; doesn't require a specific server to return your IP.

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python2 <<< $'import json\nf = open("sessionstore.js", "r")\njdata = json.loads(f.read())\nf.close()\nfor win in jdata.get("windows"):\n\tfor tab in win.get("tabs"):\n\t\ti = tab.get("index") - 1\n\t\tprint tab.get("entries")[i].get("url")'

2009-12-28 21:56:05

User: sputnick

Tags: firefox python

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Display the list of all opened tabs from Firefox via a python one-liner and a shell hack to deal with python indentation.

You have to do that before :

cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/<YOUR PROFILE>

Require bash. If you use something else, you may use

echo <CODE> | python

Forked from ArkSeth python script.

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xmlproc_parse.python-xml &>/dev/null <FILE> || exit 1

2009-12-11 17:30:03

User: sputnick

Functions: exit

Tags: python xml

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validate xml in a shell script.

For debian likes, that's in python-xml package.

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python -c 'import socket; s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM); s.connect(("<hostname>", <port>)); print s.getsockname()[0] ; s.close() ;' 2> /dev/null

2009-10-13 16:21:15

User: angleto

Functions: python

Tags: python networking tcp socket

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retrieve the source address used to contact a given host

on multihomed hosts, connected to several networks, could be usefull to know the source address (local ip address) used to reach the target host, this command does not require root priviledges.

The command use a TCP socket, if there is any error the command return an empty string, elsewhere return a valid ip address.

python fsrecovery.py -P 0 -f <path-to-instance>/Data.fs <path-to-instance-destination>/Data.fs.packed

2009-09-10 19:55:41

User: 0disse0

Functions: python

Tags: backup python Zope

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When need to compress the Zope Database

When need to pack the ZODB...

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curl -s "http://services.digg.com/stories?link=$NEWSURL&appkey=http://www.whatever.com&type=json" | python -m simplejson.tool | grep diggs

2009-08-24 08:49:20

User: jyro

Functions: grep python

Tags: curl python json digg

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Get number of diggs for a news URL

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echo '{"json":"obj"}' | python -m simplejson.tool

2009-05-10 13:58:05

User: azeey

Functions: echo python

Tags: python json

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Validate and pretty-print JSON expressions.

You can use a site like http://www.jsonlint.com/ or use the command line to validate your long and complex json data. This is part of the simplejson package for python http://undefined.org/python/#simplejson.

Wrong json expression example:

echo '{ 1.2:3.4}' | python -m simplejson.tool

Expecting property name: line 1 column 2 (char 2)

python -c "import socket; print '\n'.join(socket.gethostbyname_ex(socket.gethostname())[2])"

2009-04-30 16:10:43

User: haivu

Functions: python

Tags: Network python

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One-Liner to Display IP Addresses

The socket.gethostname() call returns the host name of the computer. The socket.gethostbyname_ex() call returns a list of three items: The host name, the list of aliases for this host, and a list of IP addresses. Recall that Python?s array starts with index 0, the socket.gethostbyname_ex(?)[2] expression refers to the list of IP addresses. Finally, the print statement prints out the IP addresses, one per line.

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python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:1025

2009-02-05 16:50:44

User: jemerick

Functions: python

Tags: email python smtp server

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python smtp server

This command will start a simple SMTP server listening on port 1025 of localhost. This server simply prints to standard output all email headers and the email body.

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