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GUIs from thin air (or rather, docstrings)

Posted on 11 September 2018 by spamforsteve

This kinda follows on from using docstrings to generate documentation. Recently I stumbled on two very neat Python modules: docopt – uses your docstrings to generate a command-line parser gooey – uses argparse definitions to create a tk-based GUI Now both … Continue reading →

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Setting up a raspberry pi, headless, for SAMBA

Posted on 5 August 2013 by spamforsteve

This isn’t about python. It sketches out how to set up a Raspberry Pi as a SAMBA server, without having to have a monitor for the PI at all (i.e. totally headless), using a Windows PC. It is really just … Continue reading →

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Storing data in Python source

Posted on 15 May 2013 by spamforsteve

Self-modifying code has to be a generally bad idea. And that’s when the code is in memory – allowing code to modify it’s own source on disk has to be off the scale of the bad-idea-o-meter …

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Dedenting

Posted on 5 April 2013 by spamforsteve

The Python standard library has two very useful functions to support removing indentation, but they’re not in obvious places! inspect.cleandoc(doc): Clean up indentation from docstrings that are indented to line up with blocks of code. Any whitespace that can be … Continue reading →

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Chording keyboards: Part 2

Posted on 18 March 2013 by spamforsteve

Part 2 of a series using Python for rapid prototyping of a chording keyboard.

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Chording keyboards: Part 1

Posted on 7 March 2013 by spamforsteve

I’ve always thought chording keyboards are an interesting idea. These keyboards only have a few keys, and they are pressed in combinations – like chords on a piano. This seems like a great fit with something like a mobile phone … Continue reading →

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A documentation generator

Posted on 23 February 2013 by spamforsteve

So you’ve written your amazing Python program which converts a Twitter feed into youtube videos or whatever and being a Good Programmer you hack together some nicely-formatted documentation for the API so that people can actually use it. Eventually you … Continue reading →

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