Printing sequences or maps containing non-ASCII strings results in escape sequences. This function uses the not-so-commonly-known "string_escape" codec to facilitate printing such sequences for quick-viewing.

Indent text like email clients script helps you to manage the text identation.

This script formats a number of columns of text into fixed widths. Each column may also be aligned independently. Whitespace is collapsed, though line breaks are retained (they may optionally be ignored).


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

Keyword: Format, Plain, Plain Text Format, Strings Formatting, Text, Text To Columns

This script is a very basic example of how to launch an editor from inside a program.


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

Keyword: Editor, Editor Launch, Launch, Text, Text Editor, Text Tool

This script searches nested strings from a line of text. The strings are limited by two different characters.


Platforms: Python,

Keyword: Nested Strings, Search, Search Strings, Strings, Strings Management

This script allows you to replace a portion of a string at a given position.


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

Keyword: Replace, String, String Replace, String Replacement, Text, Text Replace

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 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 introduces a novel way of compressing text and is meant primarily as an exercise.The procedures work best on standard 7-BIT ASCII and worst on binary encoded data. The function "encode" returns a string and a key that must be passed to function "decode" in order to recover the...


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

Keyword: Binary, Binary Encoded Data, Compressor, Text, Text Compressor, Text Tool

pedit is a simple GUI text editor application writthe PHP-GTK toolkihe PHP-GTK toolkit.


Platforms: BSD Solaris

Keyword: Editor, Php, Php Text Editor, Text, Text Editing Application, Text Editor

Zile is a small Emacs clone. Zile is a customizable, self-documenting real-time open-source display editor. Zile was written to be as similar as possible to Emacs.


Platforms: *nix, Linux, C/C++, BSD

Keyword: Editor, Emacs Clone, Text, Text Editor, Text Utility, Utility

Led is a small text editor. Features include multiple buffers, unlimited undo, better text killing commands, improved isearch and reverse searching, vertical and horizontal split screens, improved syntax highlighting and optional perl scriptability.


Platforms: Windows, *nix, Linux, C/C++, BSD

Keyword: Code, Editor, Source, Source Code Editor, Text Editor, Text Utility

PDML is an informal markup language written in 100% PHP, allowing to create complex PDF documents very easily for people already familiar with HTML. It allows for the creation of complex PDF documents and can also be used in conjunction with PHP, to define templates which can generate dynamic PDF...


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

Keyword: Documents, Generator, Pdf, Pdf Generator, Pdf Maker, Pdf Utility

protect_utf8 is a function decorator that can prevent naive functions from breaking UTF-8. If the wrapped function takes a string, and that string happens to be valid UTF-8, converts it to a unicode object and call the wrapped function. If a conversion was done and if a unicode object was...


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

Keyword: Function, Function Decorator, Naive Functions, Protection, Utf8, Utf8 Protection

Missing string functions script introduces some functions to help you manage international text.


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

Keyword: International, International Text, Python Extensions, String, String Functions, Text

This script takes a string and returns a list containing the n-sized pieces of the string.


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

Keyword: Split, Split String, String, Text, Text Split, Text Tool

This script does two actions: emits a log line only if the log message was different compared to previous message and generates a log line at least every n seconds so that user knows the system is working and has not hanged.


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

Keyword: Generator, Log Lines, Log Lines Generator, Logging, Logging Messages, Messages

This script overrides the Python built in function TextWrapper.wrap with an implementation that handles spiltting a document into paragraphs and processing each individually. This allows things such as initial_indent to work as expected.


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

Keyword: Paragraph, Paragraph Processing, Text, Text Management, Text Wrapper, Wrapper

This script converts integers to binary strings with no leading zeros.


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

Keyword: Binary, Binary String, Format, Format Integer, Integer, Integer To Binary

This script go thru directory tree and looks for files of specified pattern, and then replace in those files a string with new one, overwriting old file without backups.


Platforms: Windows, Python,

Keyword: File, Replacement, String, String Management, String Replacement, Text Replace