Reversing a String by Words or Characters script allows you to reverse the characters or words of a string.

This script contains a function that takes in an arbitrary string and converts it into its raw string equivalent. It is very useful when a user needs to input text and you want the raw equivalent to be used and not the processed version.

This script is useful when you want to convert tabs in a string to the appropriate number of spaces, or vice versa.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, Python, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Compressing, Compressing Tabs, Expanding, Expanding Tabs, String Manipulation, Tabs

"Templating" (copying an input file to output, on the fly inserting Python expressions and statements) is a frequent need, and YAPTU is a small but complete Python module for that; expressions and statements are identified by arbitrary user-chosen regular-rexpressions.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, Python, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Regular, Regular Expression, System, Templating, Templating System, Text Management

This script shows you how to use the Python standard re module to perform single-pass multiple string substitution using a dictionary.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, Python, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Dictionary Tool, Pass, Pass Replace, Replacement, Text, Text Tool

It is not so easy to put template engine and the template itself together, and to separate logic and a template. This script should define the value substituted for the slot of the easy source code for using template engine, the function of template engine, a template, and a template, and they...


Platforms: Python,

Keyword: Email, Email Template, Engine, Template, Template Engine, Template Management

This script takes a UNICODE string and replaces Latin-1 characters with something equivalent in 7-bit ASCII and returns a plain ASCII string. This function makes a best effort to convert Latin-1 characters into ASCII equivalents. It does not just strip out the Latin-1 characters. All characters...


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, Python, BSD Solaris

Keyword: 7-bit Ascii, Ascii, Converter, Latin-1 Characters, Latin1, Latin1 To Ascii

This script is a codec for converting unicodes to LaTeX markup and vice versa.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, Python, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Codec, Latex, Latex Codec, Unicode, Unicode Converter, Unicodes To Latex

This module introduces an alternative syntax a-la shell pipes for sequence-oriented functions, such as filter, map, etc., via certain classes that override __ror__ method.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, Python, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Data, Data Processing, Processing, Sequence Filter, Shell, Shell Pipes

This script interates all files in a directory and finds and replaces a string. In this case an IP address.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, Python, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Find String, Replace String, Replacement, String, String Replacement, Tool

This function will split and (optionally) validate UK postcodes.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, Python, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Parser, Parsing Postcode, Postcode, Postcode Parser, Text, Uk Postcode

This script converts OpenOffice documents to XML and text. It is useful when you want to index the contents of your documents written with OpenOffice.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, Python, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Openoffice, Openoffice Converter, Openoffice To Text, Openoffice To Xml, Text, Xml

This script presents you a method to parse a file like object containing data in the record jar format.


Platforms: *nix, Linux, Python, BSD

Keyword: File, File Parser, Jar Format, Parser, Unix, Unix Programming

This script uses an efficient way to tranform a file's text to something else, with conditions for few lines.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, Python, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Converter, Text, Text Converter, Text Processing, Text Transformer, Transformer

The misspell class takes a string and slightly mangles it by randomly transposing two adjacent characters while leaving the first and last characters intact.The resulting text is almost completely misspelled but still completely readable. Words less than four characters, numbers, email addresses...


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, Python, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Different Signature, Misspell, Misspell Words, Text, Text Transpose, Words

This script allows you to try a small, powerful templating language using template strings embedded in standard Python syntax. Templates are valid Python source, compiled directly to bytecode. Variable substitution is performed using 'string.Template'.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, Python, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Standard Syntax, Strings, Strings Template, Template, Templating Language

This function accepts a string and returns a string with whitespace(one space) inserted between words with leading capitalized letters.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, Python, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Split, Split String, String, Text, Text Processing, Text Split

Python's built in function str() and unicode() return a string representation of the object in byte string and unicode string respectively. This script introduces an enhanced version of str() and unicode() that could be used as handy functions to convert between byte string and unicode. This...


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, Python, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Byte, Byte String Converter, String, Text Converter, Unicode, Unicode Converter

AWK is a text processing language that makes it easy to "search files for lines [...] that contain certain patterns. When a line matches one of the patterns, awk performs specified actions on that line." (GNU Awk User's Guide). This script provides a way to do the same thing in python.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, Python, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Processing, Text, Text Management, Text Processing, Text Tool, Tool

QuackTemplate.Wrapper is a template helper class: it takes arbitrary Python objects and uses__gettitem__ so that the wrapped object can be passed into the standard Python string substitution mechanism. It can follow method calls, dict keys and list members (to some extent).


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, Python, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Helper, Helper Class, Template, Template Helper, Template Wrapper, Wrapper