Python Blog
Continuing my whirlwind tour through scripting languages, Here are the main
parts of my site generator redone in Python:
Site Generation
os.chdir("entries")
entries = os.listdir(".")
entries.sort()
entries.reverse()
posts = ""
for e in entries:
cmd = "markdown %s" % e
post = os.popen(cmd).read()
date = e
post_html = template_post % (date,date,post)
posts += post_html
main_page = template_master % posts
print main_page
Table of Contents
#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
import sys
import re
output = []
for arg in sys.argv:
with open(arg) as f:
for line in f:
if (re.search(r"^###", line)):
date = arg
line = re.sub(r"### ", "", line)
line = re.sub("\n", "", line)
output_line = '<a href="index.html#%s">%s</a><br>' % (date, line)
output += [output_line]
output.reverse()
for line in output:
print line
Python SimpleHTTPServer
Also serving the site using the below code utilizing Python’s included
SimpleHTTPServer package.
import SimpleHTTPServer
import SocketServer
import os
import grp
import sys
PORT = int(sys.argv[1])
user = int(sys.argv[2])
group = int(sys.argv[3])
Handler = SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
httpd = SocketServer.TCPServer(("", PORT), Handler)
os.setgid(group)
os.setuid(user)
print "dropped privileges to user: %s group: %s" % (os.getuid(), os.getgid())
print "Serving at port", PORT
httpd.serve_forever()
Favorite Programming Languages
Currently the list of languages that I am most attracted to is:
- C
- Go
- Perl
- Erlang
- JavaScript
This is different from the languages that I would actually claim to be somewhat competent in:
- C (would like to be more so)
- Awk
- Tcl
- Python
- JavaScript
- PHP (somewhat)
I feel like I’m becoming competent in Perl, and I am working to become
competent in C# and possibly F# since those are languages that are used or
potentially used at work.
Emacs Setup
Setting up yet another emacs instance:
Here are the entries in .emacs that I have to have:
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode 'nil)
(global-set-key [(control h)] 'delete-backward-char)
Actually 