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A basic search box with Django

29 November 2009

This post explains how I made the simple search box for this site using Django.

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Bazaar version script

28 November 2009

I talk about my Bazaar version script, use it in any Python package that is version controlled using Bazaar, then the user of a package can easily see an automatically generated minor version number.

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Making a Django form field using aggregated values

18 November 2009

The Django admin list_filter function provides a nice way of searching by the contents of fields. How do we implement that in the public side of a web application?

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Countries in Django

17 November 2009

In this post I talk about the CountryField that I used in my Django application.

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Processing your offline gmail in Python

03 February 2009

In this post, we look at the new offline feature of Google's webmail, and we use SQLite to make the email available in Python.

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Site upgrade please check your RSS feed

26 December 2008

I have updated the software that this site runs on, please check your RSS feeds.

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Introducing Soturi - yet another Django blog application

22 December 2008

I have uploaded the code of this site to a repository, feel free to download and have a play.

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ReStructuredText tables and doctests

05 October 2008

I explain my little module for generating reStructuredText tables. Then I look at the Python doctest module.

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Ohloh and the popularity of programming languages in free and open source software

22 September 2008

I review a website called Ohloh, and use it to make some graphs about the popularity of different programming languages in free/open source software.

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Django FreeComments cleanup script

21 September 2008

A very quick and dirty command line script to clean up your Django FreeComments.

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PyCon UK Rambles and Statistics

31 August 2008

I ramble on about Python West Midlands, PyCon UK and show some pie charts.

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Recurring monthly events in Python

09 August 2008

In this post, I share the code of two different approaches for converting a recurring event (e.g. every third Thursday) to an actual calendar date.

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PyCon UK 2008 this September

27 July 2008

A quick preview of the UK Python conference, happening on September 12-14th.

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Using new social networking service Identi.ca from the command line

23 July 2008

In this post I introduce the social networking site identi.ca, and I show how to use identi.ca from the command line using my Python module.

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Python and TCL

02 July 2008

In this post I write a function for finding the nearest neighbours in a list for both Python and TCL.

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SFTP in Python: Really Simple SSH

29 May 2008

In this article, I explain how to use ssh.py, my really simple to use SSH module.

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SFTP in Python: Paramiko

28 May 2008

In this post, I attempt to copy a file over SFTP using Python and the Paramiko SSH module.

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Is Django stable?

25 May 2008

A friend of mine keeps asking "but is it stable?" whenever Django is mentioned. In this post I explore the question.

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List files recursively by modified time

22 May 2008

In this post I share my little command-line Python application for getting back up to date with a project directory.

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An Introduction to ReStructuredText

17 May 2008

In this post I explain what ReStructuredText is, and demonstrate example ReStructuredText markup.

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Hello, my name is Zeth, I'll be your host here.

Command Line Warriors is about taking control of your own technology, it looks at our experiences of computing; especially using GNU/Linux, the Python programming language, the command-line and issues such as techno-ethics, best practices and whatever is cool now. If you take control of your technology then you are a Warrior too!

This site is your site too which means that you can contribute and get involved. You can leave comments using the facility provided. For me, the comments and discussions are by far the best part of the site. So please do have your say!

Latest Discussions

Zeth

November 29, 2009
Hi Jordan, yes that URL is gone now. I have a new contact form on this site.
→ Python CGI contact forms

Jordan

November 29, 2009
Zeth attention! Your form, http://zeth.me.uk/contact/, is not working The explorer says connecting ..but nothing happens Sorry for my poor English: I am Spanish Regards
→ Python CGI contact forms

Jordan

November 26, 2009
Sorry: tell me , not tellme (I'm spaniard) And http://zeth.me.uk/contact/ don't work
→ You got the touch, you got the power

David Jones

November 25, 2009
Your mad skillz are too l33t! for me. I specifically switched to Google Reader so that I could show people what blogs I read. But I couldn't work out how ...
→ How to find the fashionable blogs quickly

Brian R. Hickey

November 20, 2009
Symantec picked it up too.
→ How to bring down Internet Explorer with six words

Zeth

November 17, 2009
Thanks djm, I am the moose here. Christian, assuming one actually does Internationalise the countries, it should still work I guess, as the gettext stuff will happen before the list ...
→ Countries in Django

Phillip Temple

November 17, 2009
Good start, but: a) wouldn't I want None back rather than 'ZZ'? b) why not add a 'shortcut' boolean, then prepend flagged fields (plus usual '-----' separator) to the actual ...
→ Countries in Django

djm

November 17, 2009
Am I being a moose or did you mean: from whatever.countries import CountryField instead of from whatever.countries import CharField ? Good post though, cheers.
→ Countries in Django

Christian Joergensen

November 17, 2009
Wouldn't the ordering get messed up after i18n?
→ Countries in Django

Steve - Electronic Cigarettes Fan

November 17, 2009
Very well done. Is your blog just you writing? Nicely done, Steven.
→ Blogger vs Wordpress

vetetix

November 15, 2009
Sorry to bother you nearly two years after you wrote this blog article, but I can't manage to find how to modify an existing field. I am trying to change ...
→ Three Useful Python Bindings - ClamAV, Apt and Evolution

Manju

November 4, 2009
I am transferring some files using psftp to other device's FAT partition. But the filestamp of the file being transferred is modified to that of FAT device, after the transfer. ...
→ PuTTY Series: Using PSFTP

iki

November 2, 2009
or simpler: socket.gethostbyname_ex(socket.gethostname())[2]
→ How to find out your IP address in Python

iki

November 2, 2009
local_ip = set([ i[4][0] for i in socket.getaddrinfo(socket.gethostname(), None) if i[0] == 2 ])
→ How to find out your IP address in Python

Fred

November 2, 2009
testing rst ------------- - point 1
→ An Introduction to ReStructuredText

Ano

October 27, 2009
"You simply found the license of the StumbleUpon Toolbar for Internet Explorer." That's possible. I've got some more interesting information to add. Firstly, go to this page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/138 - this ...
→ Are your Firefox extensions proprietary software?

Ken

October 21, 2009
Stumbled in here at lunch. This is the best find of the week. Thanks.
→ Three classic command line tips

Jim

October 19, 2009
Thanks for the rtsp:// post - that's something that has been bugging me for a while!
→ Three classic command line tips

Zeth

October 18, 2009
Thanks for the comments guys. Great to see the all the gang are still here!
→ Three classic command line tips

Bubba

October 18, 2009
Is there any way psftp can return the true transfer rates oberved during the actual transfer?
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