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Memorial for Aaron
There will be a memorial for Aaron at the Internet Archive on Thrusday, January 24.
The flag at the Internet Archive is flying at half mast in memory of Aaron:
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A tiny virtualenv wrapper
Tymm shared his bash function for assisting with virtualenvs. I’ve been using it instead of virtualenvwrapper. Typing `pye` will list your virtualenvs, and typing `pye envname` will activate one of them:
# Enable a python virtualenv function pye() { if [[ -z "${1}" ]]; then echo -e "\x1b[01;34mAvailable virtualenvs:\x1b[00m" (cd ~/pyenvs && for i in *; do echo -e "\x1b[01;36m ${i} \x1b[00m"; done) else . ~/pyenvs/"${1}"/bin/activate; fi }
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The Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders has developed a font that helps you find OCR mistakes. What a great idea!
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Parsing UTF-8 webpages with lxml
Here is how to use python and lxml to parse web pages with unicode characters, encoded as utf-8. It would be nice if
lxml.html.parse(url)could correctly use the Content-Type HTTP header, but it doesn’t, so you have to tell lxml what encoding to use.>>> import lxml.etree >>> url = 'http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/मुखपृष्ठ' #utf-8 encoded bytes >>> url 'http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/\xe0\xa4\xae\xe0\xa5\x81\xe0\xa4\x96\xe0\xa4\xaa\xe0\xa5\x83\xe0\xa4\xb7\xe0\xa5\x8d\xe0\xa4\xa0' >>> utf8_html_parser = lxml.etree.HTMLParser(encoding='utf-8') >>> page = lxml.etree.parse(url, parser=utf8_html_parser) >>> print page.find('head/title').text विकिपीडिया >>> page.find('head/title').text u'\u0935\u093f\u0915\u093f\u092a\u0940\u0921\u093f\u092f\u093e'
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The Carnegie Libraries of San Francisco
http://www.spur.org/publications/library/article/carnegie-libraries-san-francisco
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“After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print.” http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/after-244-years-encyclopaedia-britannica-stops-the-presses/
