Reading Outlook Contact using Python
A recipe from Kevin Altis: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/173216.
A recipe from Kevin Altis: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/173216.
FTP plugin version 0.5 for jEdit was released today. With it, one can connect to a machine running OpenSSH and edit files as it they were local. This is really cool!
While skimming through Python-Dev Archives I came across an interesting post by Chad Netzer on a Python equivlent for a common use of the ternary operator in C.
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 17:38, Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
> For example, here's a common idiom i use in C:
>
> printf("Read %d file%s.", count, count == 1 ? "" : "s");
Just for giggles, here is a python version:
print "Read %d file%s." % (count, {1:""}.get(count,"s"))
The whole post can be found here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-February/033147.html
Looking for interesting RSS feeds to use with jEdit's Headlines plugin, I stumbled across a Quotes of the Day feed, which can be found here: http://www.quotationspage.com/data/qotd.rss
In Part V, of A Conversation with Guido van Rossum, Guido discusses Strong versus Weak Typing.
Python recieves a favorable review from Sun in an internal memo, where Java and Python are compared.
A wxPython-based image viewer: http://members.fortunecity.com/anandpillai/
A WebDAV plugin for jEdit is under development. More information and downloads available here: http://www.webdav.us/
Below are useful Bash key combinations from this week's Gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org/) Weekly News (http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030217-newsletter.xml):
Alt+B // Go back one word Alt+F // Go forth one word Ctrl+K // Delete everything from the cursor to the end of the line Ctrl+U // Delete everything from the cursor to the beginning of the line Ctrl+Y // Paste deleted characters at the current position Ctrl+H // Delete one character Ctrl+L // Clean screen Ctrl+P // Go to the previous history entry Ctrl+N // Go to the next history entry
http://www.intelligententerprise.com/cgi-bin/printable.cgi?file=../030301/604e_business1_1.shtml
A new release of TaskList Plugin for jEdit is available. This release includes performance improvements.
A new release of EditorScheme plugin for jEdit is available. It should be available on plugin central shortly, but in the meantime you can get it here: http://www.rutherfurd.net/jEdit/plugins/editorscheme/.