Tim Ekl timothyekl

timothyekl / gist:1137985

Created August 10, 2011 19:53

Singleton tuplization of a set wrapper class's elements

	class FooIterator:
	def __init__(self, underlyingIter):
	self.underlying = underlyingIter

	def __iter__(self):
	return self

	def next(self):
	try:
	return (self.underlying.next(),)

timothyekl / recompile.py

Created July 27, 2011 15:04

Recompile .tex files based on inotify from Python

	import pyinotify
	import os
	import sys

	class Handler(pyinotify.ProcessEvent):
	def process_IN_MODIFY(self, event):
	if event.name.endswith('.tex'):
	print "Recompiling " + event.name + "..."
	os.popen('pdflatex ' + event.name).read()

timothyekl / recompile.rb

Created July 26, 2011 20:33

Watch a directory recursively, recompiling .tex files on changes

	require 'rb-inotify'

	notifier = INotify::Notifier.new

	notifier.watch('.', :modify, :recursive) do \|event\|
	if event.name.end_with? ".tex"
	puts "#{`date`.chomp}: Modified #{event.name}; recompiling..."
	`pdflatex -interaction batchmode -output-directory #{File.dirname(event.absolute_name)} #{event.absolute_name} > /dev/null 2>&1`
	end
	end

timothyekl / smart_split.rb

Created July 14, 2011 13:52

Ruby: split string, respecting double quotes

	class String
	def smart_split
	sa = self.split(/"/).collect { \|x\| x.strip }
	return (1..sa.length).zip(sa).collect { \|i,x\| (i&1).zero? ? x : x.split }.flatten
	end
	end

timothyekl / list2sql.rb

Created July 11, 2011 15:11

Read from stdin, converting to MySQL 'values' tuples