Contents Page
Alphabetical Project Index
This is the contents page for everything in the Voidspace Python Section. I hope you find them useful, and I welcome feedback. Check out the Python Index Page for links to my Python modules, programs, and smaller "recipes".
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A Python module to interface to the Akismet anti-comment-spam web service.
Approx - the cgiproxy family of tools
A CGI proxy tool. For those with restricted or censored internet connections.
Articles on Python and Computing
A set of articles and tutorials on Python programming.
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A tool for players of Atlantis, the PBeM game.
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The resting place of retired Python modules. Various completed and unmaintained projects or pieces of code.
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A tutorial (and examples) on doing basic authentication with Python.
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The best articles from the Python Techie Blog.
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The Voidspace Python Techie Blog. News about the Voidspace Python projects and rants and discussions on Python and other techie subjects.
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The homepage for all the Voidspace CGI scripts.
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A case insensitive dictionary, list and sort function. Also a useful example of implementing a subclass of dict.
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A simple server that implements some SSI functionality. Based on CGIHTTPServer.
ClientCookie and cookielib Example
Example code showing you how to handle cookies when implementing HTTP clients. As a bonus it will work with ClientCookie and cookielib, and fallback to urllib2 if neither is available.
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A simple but powerful config file reader. Like ConfigParser, but much easier to use - and much more powerful.
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A module to assist with data persistence, using ConfigObj.
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Extracts from the Python documentation, on how to implement Mapping and Sequence type objects - especially all the methods you ought to implement.
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A tool to automatically copy files from a build location to a test location.
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An article on using ConfigObj for data persistence.
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A python module to combine data by interleaving the bits. Useful for obscuring data - and especially creating timestamps.
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A module with some simple functions for handling dates. Especially useful are the functions that will help you find the first monday or second Tuesday in the week (for repeating appointments).
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An offline directory sync tool. For maintaining two identical copies of directory structures on different computers.
Downman - Simple Download Manager
A CGI script for managing file downloads - and presenting data about what has been downloaded.
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A rant and discussion of duck typing in Python.
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The module that make DirWatcher possible. filestruct will build objects that represent directory structures.
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The Firedrop Python blog client - with lots of features.
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The plugin system, and documentation on all the standard plugins, for the Firedrop client blog tool.
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A simple proxy server that fetches pages from the google cache. Browse the web as google sees it.
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A small tool to tell you where a particular website comes in the google results, for specific search terms. Mainly for fun, but a useful tool for SEO.
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The Voidspace Python Guestbook.
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A simple class to parse HTML web pages. This class does most of what HTMLParser.HTMLParser does - except without choking on bad HTML.
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An intelligent include directive for Python. It lets you develop code as separate modules, and then use/distribute as a single script.
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A collaborative website creator. It allows a team to create a website together, using Kupu the WYSIWYG HTML editor.
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The BSD license that the Voidspace Projects are released under.
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A tool to check the integrity of local links on your website.
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A module with code to parse strings into lists (including nested lists) - and turn them back into strings as well. It also has code to deal with quoting and unquoting members.
Because a CSV is a set of comma delimited lists, listquotes presents an ultra-simple interface for reading and writing CSVs.
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A framework for doing user authentication and account management via CGI. You can also use the object that represents user accounts for state (session) management. It uses cookies for authentication.
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The index page for all the Python modules.
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A portable Python distribution - a standalone version of Python that doesn't need to be installed.
Useful for testing code with several versions of Python, or creating a portable Build, Test, and Run Python environment - it will easily fit on a flash card or USB stick.
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The homepage for the online version of Nanagram the anagram maker.
Download it and put it on your own website.
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The online anagram creator. Turn your friends names into silly combinations of words.
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The desktop version of Nanagram the Anagrammer. Lots of options.
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An introduction to Object Oriented Programming in Python.
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An interesting implementation of a dictionary that also behaves like a sequence. It keeps the order of the keys in the order that you add them, but allows you to change the order.
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A module for handling files and paths. Lots of useful stuff including a simple cross platform file locking solution.
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A (very) simple example application that illustrates the logintools framework. Users must login in order to access some static html pages.
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Prebuilt windows binaries of psyco the Python specializing compiler.
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Prebuilt windows binaries of the PyCrypto module.
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A collection of words that contain py. Useful in a silly kind of way, for choosing the names of Python projects.
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The Pythonutils module, which contains several of the Voidspace modules. These are a set of tools for common programming tasks in Python.
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The index page of the Voidspace Python pages.
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A Python powered search engine (built on top of Yahoo web services). It only returns results relevant to Python programming.
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A simple couple of CGIs that will send you to a random location.
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A page of code snippets and recipes.
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A tool for autogenerating websites, including templating and auto-building of sidebars and index pages. It allows you to store content in ReST or HTML.
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An article suggesting a novel approach to stopping spam.
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A simple tool for splitting files into pieces, and rejoining them.
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Technical services and advertising opportunities with Voidspace. Also the place that lets you make donations in gratitude for the useful projects here.
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A flexible output object. {Sm;:-)} Useful for ultra-simple logging (saves all printed statements and error messages to a file). Can also be used to set optional verbosity levels for a program - or direct output to more than one place at a time.
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A simple CGI that displays various pieces of information about an HTTP transaction. Useful for checking a server is working - and for understanding the basics of HTTP.
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A module that provides text macros for ReST documents.
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An article about the difficulties I encountered in upgrading from Python 2.3 to 2.4. In the process I worked out which extension modules I really use.
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A CGI for uploading files to a server.
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A module for handling URLs, including working out relative paths between URLs.
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pathutils and cgiutils - very useful.
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The validate module. This checks values against a specifed check (including type and parameters). It will convert string values into the expected type and is used by ConfigObj for validating config files.
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A tool for our church, for keeping track of Victory Days.
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A description of the changes I wanted to make to the Voidspace website, and the tools I needed in order to do it.
Note
This contents page is currently hand built. That means is has a tendency to lag behind reality (whatever that might be).
It is my intention to adapt to rest2web to autobuild this index.
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Last edited Fri Feb 15 13:42:08 2008.
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