Monthly Archives: May 2009

Python http_head method

Seeing as there is no really easy way to do a HTTP HEAD request from python, I wrote up the following small method: In advance I’d like to apologize for the method that assemblies the request path. Update: Added handling … Continue reading

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Formatting xml with xmllint

I keep forgetting how to format and indent xml from the command line. The tool xmllint does a fine job of doing just that, which has saved me numerous times whilst working with sports results. So. Much. Data. Running xmllint … Continue reading

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Very simple email sending method in python

I needed to send an email, so I came up with this:   def send_plain_mail(subject, body, from_mail, to): import smtplib from email.MIMEText import MIMEText from email.Encoders import encode_quopri   msg = MIMEText(body, ‘plain’, ‘iso-8859-1′)   msg[’Subject’] = subject msg[’From’] = … Continue reading

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Concurrent aacgain on iTunes library

Lets face it, I’m way to lazy to write blog posts at the moment, so I’m just going to publish some python code that i wrote today. It’s a program that runs aacgain on all the albums in your iTunes … Continue reading

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