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Parsing ansi Code

A function to extract ansi code ...

Dealing with strings that contain ansi codes for colorizing can be a challenge especially if you need the actual display length of the embedded strings.

Posted by geoff.mcnamara@gmail.com on Thursday, August 28, 2025

Taking advantage of *args and **kwargs

Taking Advantage of *args and **kwargs I consistently forget the option word I have included in a function and so I had to design a way to accept different keywords (option) names to trigger features with in a function. As an example, assigning a color to a box border is very easy by just adding something like this to a function’s arguments: def buildabox(msg, border_color="red"): """ docs go here to put a box around msg """ .

Posted by wocos on Thursday, March 9, 2023

gtoolz

The python3 collection of tools called gtoolz has been released and can be downloaded from github or using:

Posted by geoff.mcnamara@gmail.com on Thursday, February 23, 2023

Python's all() function

Python all() function Much of my coding efforts are directed towards analyzing financial data specifically targeting potential cash secured puts or covered calls. Recently, I had to refine some market overview displays. I needed a listing of the current market “gainers” and market “losers”. There is one site which I scrape using panda read_html function to grab a hadful of tables. My problem arises from two factors. One is there are no labels or titles to the tables and they can vary.

Posted by Companionway on Monday, June 28, 2021

Quick N Dirty Python Debug Function

Pdb is a great debugger for python but I like to use my own simple debug functions. Here is a simple debug function for python which could definitely be improved:

Posted by Companionway on Thursday, December 22, 2016

This was one of those “problems” that nagged me for many hours until the obvious dawned on me. I wrote a python script to grab the temperature and humidity from a DHT22 sensor and then write the output with the proper syntax to send to my monitoring program [xymon]. The wrapper bash script ran every 5 minutes and used a redirection to write out a file ie:

*/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/temphum.sh >/tmp/temphum.dat

The wrapper script grabs output and sends it to the server. Having this wrapper script lets me run the python script independently for testing or for curiosity.

Posted by Companionway on Thursday, December 15, 2016

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