Achifaifa’s gists

Achifaifa / mpl-gb.py

Created July 18, 2016 20:28

Gameboy colour palette for matplotlib

	cdict={'red': ((0.0, 0.0, 0.15),
	(0.25, 0.15, 0.48),
	(0.50, 0.48, 0.139),
	(0.75, 0.139, 0.155),
	(1.00, 0.155, 0.155)),

	'green': ((0.0, 0.0, 0.56),
	(0.25, 0.56, 0.98),
	(0.50, 0.98, 0.172),
	(0.75, 0.172, 0.188),

Achifaifa / parameters_as.py

Created June 30, 2016 17:23

decorator to automatically convert python function parameters

	from functools import wraps

	conv={"int":int, "str":str, "bool":bool}

	def arguments_as(typechoice):

	def decorator(f):
	@wraps(f)
	def func_wrapper(args, *kwargs):
	return f([conv[typechoice](i) for i in args], *kwargs)

Achifaifa / search.py

Created August 27, 2015 11:47

Searches in a file/directory for a string. use with ./search.py <term> <file>. File types to be searched can be specified in the extensions variables. Using this with ./ as a path does weird stuff.

	#! /usr/bin/env python
	"""
	Searches for a string inside text files

	use: search.py <term> <file>
	"""

	import os, sys

	def process(name,term):

Achifaifa / rle.py

Created May 9, 2015 20:25

python functions to encode and decode strings and files with rle

	def encode(string):
	counter=1
	previous=out=""
	for ind,i in enumerate(string):
	if i==previous: counter+=1; previous=i
	if ind+1==len(string) or i!=previous:
	if counter>2:
	if ind+1==len(string): out+="%i%s"%(counter,i)
	else: out+="%i%s"%(counter,previous)
	else:

Achifaifa / newyear.py

Created January 1, 2015 12:32

We missed the stupid new year thing, so I had to do this.

	#! /usr/bin/env python

	import os,time

	if __name__=="__main__":
	print "Get ready!"
	for i in range(3,0,-1):
	print "%i..."%i,
	time.sleep(1)
	# Quarter stuff

Achifaifa / search.py

Last active August 29, 2015 14:08

Reads author and title from input and plays a random matching song via VLC

	#! /usr/bin/env python

	import json,subprocess,urllib2

	jsonshit=json.loads(urllib2.urlopen("http://developer.echonest.com/api/v4/song/search?bucket=id:spotify&bucket=tracks&results=100&api_key=MZFEPELDSKFX4WAMA&artist=%s&title=%s"%(raw_input("group? ",),raw_input("title? ",))).read())
	print jsonshit["response"]["songs"][0]["artist_name"],jsonshit["response"]["songs"][0]["title"]
	processeddata=json.loads(urllib2.urlopen("https://api.spotify.com/v1/tracks/"+jsonshit["response"]["songs"][0]["tracks"][0]["foreign_id"].split(':')[2]).read())
	subprocess.call(["vlc", processeddata["preview_url"]])

Achifaifa / search.py

Created November 1, 2014 11:47

echonest search script

	#! /usr/bin/env python

	import json,urllib2

	jsonshit=json.loads(urllib2.urlopen("http://developer.echonest.com/api/v4/song/search?results=100&api_key=MZFEPELDSKFX4WAMA&artist=%s"%raw_input("group? ",)).read())
	for x in jsonshit["response"]["songs"]: print "%s - %s"%(x["artist_name"],x["title"])

Achifaifa / number.py

Created October 17, 2014 00:31

Python program to solve a stupid math riddle. The set thing worked out nicely, and it was a good excuse to use list generators ;)

	number=1234567890
	while 1:
	if number%12==number%11==number%10==number%9==number%8==number%7==0 and set(list(str(number)))==set([str(a) for a in range(10)]):break
	else: number+=10
	print number

Achifaifa / pricecalc.py

Created August 21, 2014 11:21

Program to calculate prices from base price, VAT and transport costs

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	import sys

	try:
	price=int(sys.argv[1])
	tax={"A":21,"B":10,"C":4}[sys.argv[2]]
	transp=(price*int(sys.argv[3]))/100
	totvar=price+((price+transp)*tax/100)
	print "Base price: %i + %i%% VAT + %i%% transport = %i" %(price,tax,transp,totvar)
	except:

Achifaifa / russian.py

Last active August 29, 2015 14:04

Russian roulette for console. We really needed this.

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	import os,random

	if __name__=="__main__":
	os.system('clear')
	bullets=["O","O","O","O","O","O"]
	bullets[random.randrange(6)]="X"
	raw_input("? ? ? ? ? ?\nGo ahead!")
	for i in range(6):
	os.system('clear')

Yuri Achifaifa