Sometimes I need to use some binary data (e.g. a bitmap image) in a Python
script.
In a package, you can store this data portable in a data subdirectory of
a modules using the package_data argument of setuptools.setup.
This won’t work in a standalone script.
You can of course make your script into a package, but here I want to show an
alternative solution.
The compression speed and ratio of several compression programs is tested.
For years I’ve been using fetchmail and procmail for incoming mail.
However, both of these programs haven’t been maintained for years.
So it was time to change.
My balcony gets the evening sun. Sometimes the sun and clouds make for a stunning view. See below.
As an exercise, I wrote a small script to read the Atom feeds for some favourite youtube channels. Of course I could have installed a “real” feed-reader, but that would be overkill and not half as much fun. :-)
In part 1 we say that a simple replacement for conky for generating
a statusline for i3 can be achieved. But since it uses the subprocess
module to call external programs it is pretty CPU intensive.
The question now is if we can reduce that? For that we’re going to use
mmap to look at the mailbox, and call sysctlbyname(3)
using ctypes to get the remaining system information. Note that sysctl et
al and the names used are specific to FreeBSD.
When updating my ports, I prefer to use packages when I have not changed the options of a port. This describes how I do that.
Some tips on how I use my D70s