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Pelikoodausta Pythonilla

skyostil — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:41:33 +0000

Kävin tänään kertomassa peliohjelminnista Python-kielellä Oulun yliopiston ohjelmoinnin perusteet -kurssilaisille. Session tuloksena syntyi matopeli, jonka voi ladata alta:

Pelataksesi peliä tarvit Pythonin sekä pyglet-lisäkirjaston. Peli toimii Linuxilla, Windowsilla sekä Mac OS X:llä. Kiitokset Tommille musiikista ja ääniefekteistä.

English translation

Today I gave a presentation on game programming using Python to the students attending Programming 101 at the University of Oulu. The result of the session was a classic snake game, which you can download above.

In order to play the game you’ll need Python and the pyglet-module. The game works on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Thanks to Tommi for the music and sound effects.

Disable mandatory screen saver

skyostil — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:51:18 +0000

So you’re trying to watch a movie on your shiny new corporate laptop. Ten minutes into the film, the automatic screen saver kicks in, locks the machine and forces you to re-login. The little weasels at IT have even disabled the screen saver properties, so you can’t even turn it off.

Here’s a tiny python script that will fake keyboard activity every five minutes in order to prevent a screen saver from activating.

"""Fake keyboard activity to prevent screen
   saver from activating."""
import win32api
import win32con
import time

while True:
	print "Faking keyboard activity at", time.asctime()
	win32api.keybd_event(win32con.VK_SHIFT, 0, 0, 0)
	win32api.keybd_event(win32con.VK_SHIFT, 0, \\
                             win32con.KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0)
	time.sleep(60 * 5)

Download:

Stakeout

skyostil — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 13:01:21 +0000

This program monitors a bunch of files and runs a command when any of them changes.

The idea was pilfered from Pragmatic Automation. This program uses fcntl and thus only works on Unix derivatives.

Here’s how you might use it:

find -name \*.py | xargs ./stakeout.py src/TestAll.py

Download: Python source, Example shell script

pyhtml

skyostil — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 12:58:11 +0000

PHP-style inline code in Python.

Here’s a sample html file:



The square of 5 is

.

Note that the opening and closing tags () must be in separate lines.

Installation for Apache

Add the following to your httpd.conf and copy this script into your
cgi-bin directory:

   AddHandler python-parsed-html .pyhtml
   Action python-parsed-html /cgi-bin/pyhtml.py

Also, make sure you have the actions modules (mod_actions) loaded or the above won’t work.

Download: pyhtml.py