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catichenor / human-date-parser.py

Last active August 8, 2018 17:24

Command to parse a human date description and output a date.

	#!/usr/bin/python

	from __future__ import print_function # Need to grab the print function from Python 3.

	import parsedatetime # Requires "parsedatetime" Python module

	from datetime import datetime
	import argparse

	argparser = argparse.ArgumentParser()

catichenor / pomodoro_win.py

Last active July 25, 2022 16:58

Simple Pomodoro timer with Windows notifications

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	# ------ #
	# Requires notify-send: http://vaskovsky.net/notify-send/
	# To link it to this script, download notify-send,
	# get the path of the `notify-send.exe` file,
	# and paste it into the "notify_send_path" variable.
	# ------ #

	# Work for 25 minutes, break for 5 minutes.

catichenor / output_nvidia_driver_version.sh

Created December 22, 2016 02:47

Output the version of the installed NVIDIA driver

	#!/bin/sh

	nvidia-smi -q \| grep "Driver Version" \| awk '{ print $NF }'

catichenor / resultswriter.py

Last active December 28, 2016 01:49

Python example to extract results from a log file and write to a CSV

	import re
	import csv
	import fnmatch
	from os import listdir
	from os.path import basename, splitext

	file_list = []
	for dir_file in listdir('.'):
	if fnmatch.fnmatch(dir_file, '*.log'):
	file_list.append(dir_file)

catichenor / testkeygen.py

Created December 29, 2016 19:12

Key generator test in Python

	#!/usr/bin/python

	import random

	# int((random.random() * 90000) + 10000) # Yields numbers between 10000 and 99999

	def numCheck(inDict):
	inputLength = len(inDict)
	while len(inDict) == inputLength:
	try:

catichenor / separate_json.sh

Last active January 17, 2017 21:42

Separate JSON in sed

	# It's better to use [jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) for this instead.
	# `jq '.' /path/to/jsonfile.json \| less` shows a JSON file in less

	cat jsonfile.json \| sed 's/\}, /}, \'$'\n/g' \| less # Uses an old-school escape sequence to get a real newline.

catichenor / fade_edges-pythonista.py

Last active January 10, 2017 03:44

Pythonista: PIL/Pillow fade image edges

	from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFilter
	import dialogs
	import console
	import photos

	assets = photos.pick_asset(title='Pick some assets', multi=True)
	for this_asset in assets:
	im = this_asset.get_image()
	im = im.convert('RGBA')
	settings = {}

catichenor / time_code.py

Last active January 11, 2017 22:29

Timing a piece of code in Python

	import datetime

	def time_code(time1, time2, label):
	time_difference = (time2 - time1).total_seconds()
	return 'Time to run ' + label + ': ' + str(time_difference) + ' seconds.'

	time_a = datetime.datetime.now()

	sleep 10 # Replace with whatever code needs to be timed.

catichenor / csv_check.py

Last active October 12, 2025 18:54

Check CSV file for a header row, and detect the dialect.

	import csv

	input_csv_file = '/path/to/test_csvfile.csv'

	with open(input_csv_file, 'rb') as csvfile: #`with open(input_csv_file, 'r') as csvfile:` for Python 3
	csv_test_bytes = csvfile.read(1024) # Grab a sample of the CSV for format detection.
	csvfile.seek(0) # Rewind
	has_header = csv.Sniffer().has_header(csv_test_bytes) # Check to see if there's a header in the file.
	dialect = csv.Sniffer().sniff(csv_test_bytes) # Check what kind of csv/tsv file we have.
	inputreader = csv.reader(csvfile, dialect)

catichenor / current-business-week.py

Last active January 17, 2017 22:31

Print out the date range for the current business week in Python.

	from datetime import datetime, timedelta

	today = datetime.now()
	date_today = datetime(today.year, today.month, today.day)
	day_of_the_week = date_today.weekday()
	date_start_delta = timedelta(-(date_today.weekday()))
	date_start = date_today + date_start_delta # Result should be Monday of this week.
	date_end_delta = timedelta(4)
	date_end = date_start + date_end_delta # Result should be Friday of this week.

Christopher Tichenor catichenor