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Miscellaneous Source Code
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badtech.py Dietmar Lang It's a little script I have running as a cron job and which downloads the latest Badtech comic strip every day.
uq15.py Rob Andrews Ahh... accomplishment!Useless Certification! A relatively straight-forward (and working) demo of one way to provide a computer-based quiz. This version makes it pointless for one student to ask another "What's the answer to number five?" by randomly assigning the order in which questions are presented, as well as the order in which multiple-choice answers are listed.
thumbnail.py Tim Lavoie Takes a directory as a parameter, and crawls it for pictures. It generates small thumbnails of them, along with a simple index.html file which displays the thumbnails, but links to the full-size images.
bib2ltx.py Christopher Arnt This script parses a list of bibliographic entries and outputs it in LaTeX.
acm401glsk.py S. Keim Ahh... accomplishment!ACM: Problem 401
findsimplesubs.py Tesla Coil Accepts ordered pattern word substitutions, returns matching words from wordlist file. Rapidly toasts simple substitution ciphers with word divisions.
ltbybe.py Rune Nesheim A simple text editor using Pythons default gui, Tkinter.
blackjack.py Brett Kelly Ahh... accomplishment!In the words of the author: "A really bad blackjack game"
livepics.py Carlo Bifulco Crawls for the picture in a dir and then displays them bouncing in a Tkinter Canvas. Command line option include the dir and the size of the canvas.
jiggy.py Martin Stevens It builds a number of scroll bars according to a variable, and then centre's them. Output goes to stdout, etc.....

XHTML! by Rob Andrews