https://keyes.ie/tags/gist/ Recent content in gist on keyes.ie Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://keyes.ie/wip-python-markdown-prettypre-extension/ Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://keyes.ie/wip-python-markdown-prettypre-extension/ Update 03/09 16:23: *I just discovered CodeHilite which uses Pygments to markup the code for highlighting. Removing my solution’s JavaScript dependency is a nice win. * I’ve been working on a documentation tool as a side-project and one of the aims is to use Markdown as the source format. It’s nice when code snippets are syntax highlighted in documentation so I am working on a Python Markdown extension to enable that, without introducing too much of a burden on the document author. https://keyes.ie/hyperlinks-with-unicode-in-rest/ Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://keyes.ie/hyperlinks-with-unicode-in-rest/ I noticed the following “challenge” on Twitter last night: Challenge: Figure out how to create a hyperlink for the text “Acme™” without using the literal character “™” in ReST. Prize for the winner. In the oft-repeated words of Barney Stinson, challenge accepted: |Acme(TM)|_.. |Acme(TM)| unicode:: Acme U+2122.. _Acme(TM): http://example.com Visit the Gist to see the rendered output. https://keyes.ie/automatically-compile-less-files/ Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://keyes.ie/automatically-compile-less-files/ A nice feature of Compass is that it provides a watch command line option. When you pass this option, compass automatically compiles SASS files when they are saved. LESS doesn’t provide a similar option, so I created lesswatch. It uses watchdog’s watchmedo script, which can run a command when a file change is detected. watchdog is implemented in Python and can be installed from PyPi. Compilation from LESS to CSS is performed by lessc. https://keyes.ie/extracting-values-from-a-cherokee-configuration-file/ Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://keyes.ie/extracting-values-from-a-cherokee-configuration-file/ I need to extract the maximum vserver id and the maximum source id from a Cherokee configuration file, so I can auto-generate configuration for test instances. The following is the solution I came up with: import os import re def increpl(matchobj): """Replace the include statement with the content of the file.""" inc = matchobj.group(1) return parse(inc) def parse(filename): """Returns the configuration with all includes resolved.""" cfile = open(filename, 'r') content = cfile. https://keyes.ie/find-a-random-unbound-port/ Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://keyes.ie/find-a-random-unbound-port/ find_unbound_port returns a (pseudo-)random unbound port on localhost. import random import socket # range of ports where available ports can be found PORT_RANGE = [33000,60000] def find_unbound_port(): """Returns an unbound port number on 127.0.0.1.""" port = random.randint(*PORT_RANGE) sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) try: sock.bind(("127.0.0.1", port)) except socket.error: port = get_port() return port if __name__ == "__main__": print find_unbound_port() https://keyes.ie/github-gists/ Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://keyes.ie/github-gists/ I discovered GitHub Gists today, so I decided to share a tiny function (Python) I wrote today to get the latest revision identifier for a git or svn sourcepool. A zero tests, zero edge cases, suck it and see approach to releasing little bits of code.