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.

When working between platforms, it is often necessary to convert the line endings on files for them to work, especially when it comes to code. Pass Unix Python code with and it goes nowhere. Same on Mac Python with . This code simply and easily fixes the problem.

This script is a portable class to carry out all sorts of validation on strings. It uses regular expressions to carry out common validation procedures.


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

Keyword: Regular, Regular Expressions, String, String Validator, Strings Validation Class, Validator

Smart pluralisation script has a function that provides more intelligence than simply adding an 's' to the end of a word.


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

Keyword: Pluralisation, Spelling, Text, Text Management, Text Pluralisation, Text Tool

When working with text, it may be necessary to change the indentation level of a block. This code will take a multiline string and add or remove leading spaces to each line so that the indentation level of the block matches some absolute number of spaces.


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

Keyword: Block Identation Level, Identation, Line, Multi, Multi Line Identation, Multiline String

In this script, Eval's __getitem__ returns the result of eval(key). In Python, String and Unicode objects have one special operator: the % operator. With that operator, strings can be formatted with format codes.Formatting is given syntax format % values, where format is a string with format...


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

Keyword: Code, Strings, Strings Code, Text Management, Text Tool, Tool

These short functions convert identifier names between the most common naming conventions: CapitalizedWords, mixedCase and under_scores.


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

Keyword: Conventions, Identifier Names, Naming, Naming Conventions, String, String Manipulation

This script contains a function to check on the occurence of a set of characters.


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

Keyword: Character, Set, Set Of Chars, String, String Management, String Manipulation

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

This function allows you to process a string by one character at a time.


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

Keyword: Processing, String, String Manipulation, String Processing, Text, Text Processing

This one line function adds up the ascii values of a string and returns the total as a checksum. Also included is a variation which returns the checksum mod 256 (so it can be used as a single byte).The same technique can be used to add up a list of numbers, or to return the average of a list...


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

Keyword: Ascii, Ascii Values Of A String, Checksum, String, String Checksum, String Processing

This script presents another way to read a file line by line, starting at the end.


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

Keyword: File, File Reader, Reader, Text, Text Reader, Text Tool

In a configuration file you have some options. These are grouped in name and value pairs. These pairs belong to one section and a section is indicated by a name in brackets. This Python class reads such a file.


Platforms: Windows, Python,

Keyword: Configuration, Configuration File, Configuration Tool, Tool, Winini, Winini File

This script provides a class which will read a text file in reverse... It basically reads a block of data from the end of the file as a list and keeps popping items off of that everytime the readline() method is called. When the block is exhausted, another block is read, and so forth... This...


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

Keyword: Backwards, Backwards Read, File Reader, Read, Text, Text Reader

Text files are most often read by-line, with excellent direct Python support. Sometimes you need to use other units, such as the paragraph -- a sequence of non-empty lines separated by empty lines. Python doesn't support that directly, but, this script adds such functionality.


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

Keyword: File, File Read, Paragraphs, Paragraphs Units, Text Read, Units

This script contains a simple function to change the background/foreground color of characters written to a Windows console (command line).


Platforms: Windows, Python,

Keyword: Change, Character, Character Color Change, Color, Console Character Color, Windows Console

This script represents the implementation of a dictionary, whose items cannot be reset or deleted, nor new can be added.


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

Keyword: Custom Dictionary, Dictionary, Immutable Dictionary, Items, Tuple, Tuple Dictionary

odt2txt is a command-line tool which extracts the text out of OpenDocument Texts, as produced by OpenOffice.org, KOffice, StarOffice and others. Features: - small - supports multiple output encodings - adopts to your locale - able to substitute common characters which the output charset does...


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, C/C++, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Converter, Odt To Txt Converter, Text, Text Converter, Text Tool, Tool

txt2graph should visualize the structure and dependencies of a text. It reads a text document from stdin, removes all non-alphas and generates an array (list) of words. Then it converts german-umlauts, because graphviz can only handle clean ASCII as node-description and output a dot-file for a...


Platforms: *nix, Linux, Perl, BSD

Keyword: Ascii, Text, Text Dependencies, Text Properties, Text Structure, Visualizer

AFT is a document preparation system. It is mostly free form meaning that there is little intrusive markup. AFT source documents look a lot like plain old ASCII text.AFT has a few rules for structuring your document and these rules have more to do with formatting your text rather than embedding...


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

Keyword: Document, Document Preparation System, Html Editor, Preparation, System, Text Editor