Tag archive for "Python"

Magnifying glass I wanted to generate word statistics for a big amount of files, so I wrote this script. What it does is to remove special characters from filenames, and to split the filename into words. The extension is thrown away. more

Supernova Lately I've been getting lots of errors similar to pkg_resources.extern.packaging.version.InvalidVersion: Invalid version. Here's how I fixed them. more

Dice The folder sensor in home assistant is good if you need a random file from one directory, but how about a random file from a file hierarchy? more

Glasses I often want to mock reading from a file when writing unit tests in Python, and I always struggle to find the right solution again. So I'm posting it on my own blog in the hope of finding it later 🤣 My solution is to return a StringIO object from … more

Friendship I recently had to restore some data from backups, and was using Django serializers to get the job done. Objects of one class were not deleted, but the relationships were set to None when the related objects were deleted. Here's how I restored the relationship information. more

Pumpkin Soup I ran into this error several times recently while trying to run a few Python-based GTK apps. Here's how I solved the problem. more

Letter Procmail is an old tool, and the reason you're using it today is probably because you started using it many years ago, and changing to something else is not something you want to do. Procmail doesn't know about unicode, so unicode in headers is problematic. This post contains my solution to creating procmail rules that understand unicode subjects. more

Magnifying glass I use find on a network filesystem and pipe the output to rofi for a nice menu, but the list of files got longer and longer over time and getting the results took too long. I looked around and couldn't find a solution I liked a lot so I wrote … more

i3 window manager I recently switched to py3status to populate my i3bar. I had several scripts I wanted to call that generate some output for the bar. Below is an example how this can be accomplished. more

Django models are usually created with a get_absolute_url method, but Wagtail pages don't have one. On this site I mix Wagtail pages with other Django models and needed an url without a domain in some places, below is the solution I'm using right now. Most methods to get a page … more

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