(Windows) LogParser - Install Without Admin Rights
A twitter acquaintaince @zippy1981 recommended the Window's software LogParser as a replacement for MSSQL bcp for my data transfer needs. I downloaded the msi file from Microsoft and tried to install...
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Editing a PDF file with Python (with a little help from PDFTKBuilder)
I'm working with a report published with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). The report is located on a remote server in Africa. It is inconvenient for management in North America to view the...
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Internet Explorer 9 Save Dialog - SendKeys Last Resort
At work we use Internet Explorer 9 on Windows 7 Enterprise. SharePoint is the favored software for filesharing inside organizational groups. Our mine planning office is in the States; the mine...
View ArticlePDF - Removing Pages and Inserting Nested Bookmarks
I blogged before about PyPDF2 and some initial work I had done in response to a request to get a report from Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services into PDF format. Since then I've had better luck...
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Event report: pycon.za
I managed to squeeze in a 4 day stop in Johannesburg on a recent trip that happily coincided with pycon.za. I love pycon.us and all the other big conferences, but for value, these smaller localized...
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Downloading a Bunch of MP3's off the Internet (Foreign Language Tapes)
A mining bud Jen wrote a blog post lamenting the difficulty of learning a foreign language as an adult in a far off land. This inspired me to clean up my "download the Foreign Service Institute"...
View Articlesubprocess.Popen() or Abusing a Home-grown Windows Executable
Each month I redo 3D block model interpolations for a series of open pits at a distant mine. Those of you who follow my twitter feed often see me tweet, "The 3D geologic block model interpolation...
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Mono gtk-sharp IronPython CalendarView
A number of years ago I did a post on the IronPython Cookbook site about the Windows.Forms Calendar control. I could never get the thing to render nicely on *nix operating systems (BSD family). It...
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Gtk.TreeView (grid view) with mono, gtk-sharp, and IronPython
The post immediately prior to this one was an attempt to reproduce Windows.Forms Calendar controls in Gtk for cross platform (Windows/*nix) effective rendering.This time I am attempting to get familiar...
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MeetBSD California 2014 Recap
I am returning from MeetBSD in San Jose, California. This isn't a Python-related post per se, but the BSD family of operating systems maintains packages and ports for Python and Python third party...
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Polygon Offset With pyeuclid Revisited
A few years back I did two or three posts on polygon offset. It was a learning experience that I never quite completed to my satisfaction. A kind visitor to my last post on the subject, Mr. Ahmad...
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Polygon Offset Using Vector Math in IronPython
The other day I saw a something retweeted by @leppie (I think) about an experimental hyper-fast vector math driven 3D engine for the dot Net Framework. This led me to investigate whether there is a...
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IE and Getting a Text File Off the Web - Selenium Web Tools
I've blogged previously about getting information off of a distant server on my employer's internal SharePoint site. Automating this can be a little challenging, especially when there's a change.My...
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Lenovo Thinkpad X201 Fan Replacement
This is not a Python-related post per se, but it may be useful to people getting started with UNIX-based, open source software, or even a Windows user who happens to be using a Thinkpad X201...
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MSSQL sqlcmd -> bcp csv dump -> Excel
A couple months back I had a one-off assignment to dump some data from a vendor provided relational database to a csv file and then from there to Excel (essentially a fairly simple ETL - extract,...
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Setting Up Toy Postgresql Database on OpenBSD
This isn't a Python scripting post, but the next one will be on the same topic. In this post I get a Postgresql database set up on my OpenBSD laptop and get familiar with the Postgresql environment.I...
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Storing and Displaying Images in Postgresql
Last post I set up a toy (literally) Postgresql database for my model train car collection. A big part of the utility of the database is its ability to store images (pictures or photos) of the real...
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Improved Storing and Displaying Images in Postgresql - bytea
Last post I brute forced the storage of binary image (jpeg) data as text in a Postgresql database, and accordingly brute forced the data's display in the Unix image viewer feh from output from a psql...
View Article7-Zip-JBinding API with jython on Windows
I have a set of multi-GB Windows folders that I need to archive in 7-zip format each month. I'd prefer not to use the mouse to compress the folders "manually." Also, I didn't want to use the command...
View ArticleUsing Generators and Coroutines to Merge Tabular Data (Drill Holes)
I have some mining drill hole data that I need to merge into an old vendor FORTRAN input format. Basically I do a series of SQL pulls from the drillhole database to csv files, then merge the data. My...
View Articlesqlcmd faux csv dump and parsing with the csv module
Lately I had another Excel-VBA-Python one off hack project. Once again there was the dilemma of not being able to use MSSQL's bcp because my query string was too long. sqlcmd can run a query from a...
View ArticleCrude Testing of Equivalent Code With assert
In engineering and business environments, it is common to have to1) recreate an equivalent calculation in a different format for a different purpose and check the results against the original...
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Filling in Missing Grouping Columns of MSSQL SSRS Report Dumped to Excel
This is another simple but common problem in certain business environments:1) Data are presented via a Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services report, BUT2) The user wants the data in Excel, and,...
View ArticlePowershell Encoded Command, sqlcmd, and csv Query Output
A while back I did a post on using sqlcmd and dumping data to Excel. At the time I was using Microsoft SQL Server's bcp (bulk copy) utility to dump data to a csv file.Use of bcp is blocked where I am...
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Embedding an Image in an Outlook Email
I had a project where I needed to generate some draft emails programmatically in Outlook.Inserting the company logo and some content related images took some googling to sort through. Ideally I wanted...
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