Articles tagged with "scripts"

1. Simple setup.py for python scripts

   Installing Python scripts (as opposed to modules) is a too involved using distutils/setuptools. Those do not take into account zipped archives and scripts using a GUI toolkit. The latter is a problem on ms-windows.

   So I wrote my own setup scripts to do things differently;

   • A simple setup script that works on single-file scripts.
   • A setup script that can wrap applications plus their custom module up in a zip-file and install it as a single self-contained file.
   • They should work on POSIX and ms-windows without root/administrator privileges.
   • And they should not require anything outside the python standard library.

   These scripts are now available on github as setup-py-script.

2. img4latex

   This script “image for LaTeX” is meant for generating LaTeX figure environments of pictures.

3. Opening files from the command line

   This Python script is a small helper to open files from the command line. It was inspired by a OS X utility of the same name.

4. Generate random passwords

   One way of making hard to guess passwords is to take random data and encode it with base64 to make …

5. vid2mkv

   My digital camera can also produce movies, like most camera’s these days. It saves them in AVI format, with …

6. vid2mp4

   Videos with H.264 video and AAC sound im MP4 containers seem to strike a very good size performance balance …

7. genbackup

   This shell-script makes a backup (with the tar program) of the directory from which it is called, with all its …

8. foto4lb

   Photos from modern digital cameras are generally so large these days that you have to shrink them to use them …

9. make-mp3

   After writing the make-flac python script, I adapted a copy to use LAME to generate variable bitrate MP3 files instead …

10. gitdates

    In answer to this question on stackechange, I wrote gitdates.py (available from github). If it is called from a …