This time not as part of a
challenge
but because I quickly needed a parser for bencoding in Python. There
are existing modules to do that but
"bencode" needs
some Bittorrent library,
"bcode" is not
Py3-compatible out of the box.
"bcoding" seems
to work but looks slow and is about …
Since I found the buttons on my monitor to be inconvenient, I decided to try to go for a commandline utility that could set the brightness. There are several ways this can be implemented:
I replaced the default browser in Xfce (Settings → Preferred
Applications) with a custom Python script to do some additional URL
handling. To open a link in Firefox you just have to run
firefox -remote OpenURL(<url>) and you can even use it with multiple
instances (add -P <profile>).
Using the …
Yep, made one. Too lazy to write much here. Just take a look at the example:
#!/usr/bin/env python2
from __future__ import print_function
from teeworlds import Teeworlds
# set up stuff
tw = Teeworlds(timeout=2)
# ask the masters for servers
tw.query_masters()
# query servers, wait for responses
# stops if no …Here the updates go again… This time I rewrote Soldat's internal fileserver in Python.
Leo had problems with it on his TTW server which runs the Windows binary of soldatserver via wine because it runs better (that's at least his opinion) than the native Linux version, except for the …
I'm using Quod Libet as music player on Ubuntu now since most of the other players weren't to my likes. XMMS and Audacious are too simple; I need my media library. I don't like Rythmbox's media library, I don't quite remember why though. Amarok. It's bloatware (plus it's for KDE …
I wrote a X-Chat 2 Python Plugin today that allows you to run commands in a shell.
You can split a command you want to run into multiple lines by ending your input with a \ — just like you would do in a terminal. Newlines can be done using \n though …