python 2008-06-30T22:43:18+03:00 hawking http://hawking.nonlogic.org http://hawking.nonlogic.org/ NanoBlogger paludis-utils hawking http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/2008/06/26/paludis-utils/ 2008-06-26T18:00:57+03:00 2008-06-26T18:00:57+03:00
paludis-utils is a paludis replacement for portage-utils. It uses paludis python bindings. Currently there are four applets available: 
alip@trippin> p
Usage: p <applet> <args>
Invoke a paludis-utils applet

Currently defined applets:
p <applet> <args>    : Virtual applet
patom [options] <pkgname>  : Split atom strings
pfile [options] <filename> : List packages owning files
plist [options] <pkgname>  : List contents of packages matching requirements
psize [options] <pkgname>  : Calculate size of installed packages
Contributions are welcome :-)]]>
Latest news from Gentoo/Python hawking http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/2008/04/19/latest_news_from_gentoopython/ 2008-04-19T02:01:28+03:00 2008-04-19T02:01:28+03:00
  • Buffer overflow in zlib extension, CVE-2008-1721.
    Gentoo bug: 217221
    Upstream bug: 2586
    Upstream fix: r62235
    Fixed Gentoo/Python versions: 2.3.6-r5, 2.4.4-r10, 2.5.2-r1
  • PyString_FromStringAndSize() unsafe
    Upstream bug: 2587
    Upstream fix: r62262
    Fixed Gentoo/Python versions: 2.3.6-r5, 2.4.4-r10, 2.5.2-r1
  • distutils doesn't respect CXXFLAGS
    Gentoo bug: 145206
    Fixed Gentoo/Python versions: 2.4.4-r10, 2.5.2-r1
    Thanks to Mark Peloquin for the patch.
  • Thread unsafe file objects
    Upstream bugs: 595601, 815646
    Upstream fix: r62195
    Fixed Gentoo/Python versions: 2.5.2-r1
  • a bunch of infinite C recursions
    Upstream bug: 1202533
    Upstream fix: r58032
    Fixed Gentoo/Python versions: 2.5.2-r1

I've also added wininst USE flag fixing bug 198021 and converted nothreads and nocxx USE flags to threads and cxx adding USE defaults. The only issue left is internal build of libffi - bug 209673 - which should wait until some issues about libffi is clarified.

If you're using a python extension written in C++ like wxpython, reemerge it to make use of your CXXFLAGS.

This is all for now. Have a nice weekend :-)

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python developers guide 2 hawking http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/2007/07/11/python_developers_guide_2/ 2007-07-11T05:07:47+03:00 2007-07-11T05:07:47+03:00

Thanks nightmorph for correcting my crappy grammar and guide-xml ;)]]>
python developers guide hawking http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/2007/06/30/python_developers_guide/ 2007-06-30T21:10:29+03:00 2007-06-30T21:10:29+03:00
Gentoo Python Developers Guide is rather superficial thus I decided to improve it which can be helpful for everyone writing ebuilds for python packages. The initial version is here. It's far from perfect now but well it's a start :).]]>
pyfics initial release hawking http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/2006/12/20/pyfics_initial_release/ 2006-12-20T18:48:49+03:00 2006-12-20T18:48:49+03:00
Today I released pyfics-0.01_alpha. pyfics is a python library to communicate to FICS, which hopefully will make it easy to write bots and interfaces with python. It's the initial release and still needs some work. The project page is here.

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clamav procmail filter hawking http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/2006/09/16/clamav_procmail_filter/ 2006-09-16T22:13:06+03:00 2006-09-16T22:13:06+03:00
I wrote a simple filter for procmail to scan mails with clamav.By default clamd has a socket file under /var/run/clamav/clamd.sock and this filter connects to it and gets the mail scanned.It adds a X-CLAMAV header to the e-mail to inform the reader. Here is the script.

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randomize me, randomize me my friend... hawking http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/2006/09/09/randomize_me_randomize_me_my_friend/ 2006-09-09T20:40:26+03:00 2006-09-09T20:40:26+03:00
Life sucks python is the only way out... Here is another script I wrote today. It gets random numbers,bytes,sequences from random.org.

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nopaste.py hawking http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/2006/08/31/nopaste_py/ 2006-08-31T01:58:26+03:00 2006-08-31T01:58:26+03:00
Today I rewrote app-text/nopaste with python. It's a simple command line interface to rafb.net/paste. I just don't want to install ruby just for that small script. In addition to that python is a more appropriate language than ruby. ;)

Simple usage:

hawking@localhost ~/python/nopaste $ ./nopaste.py -h
nopaste script for rafb.net/paste
usage : nopaste.py [options]
Options:
    -h,--help        You're looking at it
    -l,--language    Set language ( defaults to 'Plain Text')
    -n,--nick        nickname
    -d,--desc        description
    -v,--verbose     verbose mode
    -c,--nocolor     supress coloring of output
    -x               Nopaste from X selection instead of stdin
                     (using xclip or xcut)

You can specify a http proxy by setting http_proxy environment variable.

hawking@localhost ~/python/nopaste $ export http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8118
hawking@localhost ~/python/nopaste $ cat test.py | ./nopaste.py -l Python -n
hawking -d "a nice python script" -v
Verbose mode
Language :   Python
Nick     :   hawking
Description :   a nice python script
Setting headers
Encoding parameters
Sending the request
Reading...
http://www.rafb.net/paste/results/rzH00g32.html
hawking@localhost ~/python/nopaste $

You can get the script here.

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