vs4vijay

function getDataFromXpath(path, url) {
  var data = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url);
  var text = data.getContentText();
  var xmlDoc = Xml.parse(text, true);
  
  // Replacing tbody tag because app script doesnt understand.
  path = path.replace("/html/","").replace("/tbody","","g");
  var tags = path.split("/");
  Logger.log("tags : " + tags);
  // getting the DOM of HTML

njsmith

Comparison of configuration file languages

We need to PEPify a static format for writing down bootstrap information in Python source trees. The initial target is a list of PEP 508 package requirement strings. It's possible that in the future we might want to add more features like a build system backend specification (as in PEPs 516, 517), or an extension namespace feature to allow third-party developer tools (flit, pytest, coverage, flake8, etc.) to consolidate their configuration in this file in a systematic

klaaspieter

From time to time, Musk will send out an e-mail to the entire company to enforce a new policy or let them know about something that's bothering him. One of the more famous e-mails arrived in May 2010 with the subject line: Acronyms Seriously Suck:

There is a creeping tendency to use made up acronyms at SpaceX. Excessive use of made up acronyms is a significant impediment to communication and keeping communication good as we grow is incredibly important. Individually, a few acronyms here and there may not seem so bad, but if a thousand people are making these up, over time the result will be a huge glossary that we have to issue to new employees. No one can actually remember all these acronyms and people don't want to seem dumb in a meeting, so they just sit there in ignorance. This is particularly tough on new employees.

That needs to stop immediately or I will take drastic action - I have given enough warning over the years. Unless an acronym is approved by me, it should not enter the SpaceX glossary.

gboudreau

Generating Authy passwords on other authenticators

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*update: TBC, but this new might affect how easy it is to use this technique past August 2024: Authy is shutting down its desktop app | The 2FA app Authy will only be available on Android and iOS starting in August

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This gist, based in part on a gist by Brian Hartvigsen, allows you to export from Authy your TOTP tokens you have stored there.
Those can be "standard" 6-digits / 30 secs tokens, or Authy's own version, the 7-digits / 10 secs tokens.

tanaikech

Interconversion Between Google Docs and Microsoft Docs

Updated: January 22, 2023

This sample script is for the interconversion between Google Docs (document, spreadsheet and presentation) and Microsoft Docs (word, excel and powerpoint). The feature is to convert them without Advanced Google Services.

Since Advanced Google Services is not used for this, if you publish your script with this script, you are not necessary to explain how to install Advanced Google Services. This script converts between Google Docs and Microsoft Docs using UrlFetchApp.fetch(). Although Drive API v3 is used, Drive API is automatically enabled by the recent update on Google. Ref (I'm sorry. This is Japanese language.) So you are not necessary to explain about the use of Drive API. By this, users will be easy to use the scripts that Drive API is used. This is very important for a lot of users.

posener

Story: Writing Scripts with Go

This is a story about how I tried to use Go for scripting. In this story, I’ll discuss the need for a Go script, how we would expect it to behave and the possible implementations; During the discussion I’ll deep dive to scripts, shells, and shebangs. Finally, we’ll discuss solutions that will make Go scripts work.

Why Go is good for scripting?

While python and bash are popular scripting languages, C, C++ and Java are not used for scripts at all, and some languages are somewhere in between.

mbinna

Effective Modern CMake

Getting Started

For a brief user-level introduction to CMake, watch C++ Weekly, Episode 78, Intro to CMake by Jason Turner. LLVM’s CMake Primer provides a good high-level introduction to the CMake syntax. Go read it now.

After that, watch Mathieu Ropert’s CppCon 2017 talk Using Modern CMake Patterns to Enforce a Good Modular Design (slides). It provides a thorough explanation of what modern CMake is and why it is so much better than “old school” CMake. The modular design ideas in this talk are based on the book [Large-Scale C++ Software Design](https://www.amazon.de/Large-Scale-Soft

shafik

What is the Strict Aliasing Rule and Why do we care?

(OR Type Punning, Undefined Behavior and Alignment, Oh My!)

What is strict aliasing? First we will describe what is aliasing and then we can learn what being strict about it means.

In C and C++ aliasing has to do with what expression types we are allowed to access stored values through. In both C and C++ the standard specifies which expression types are allowed to alias which types. The compiler and optimizer are allowed to assume we follow the aliasing rules strictly, hence the term strict aliasing rule. If we attempt to access a value using a type not allowed it is classified as undefined behavior(UB). Once we have undefined behavior all bets are off, the results of our program are no longer reliable.

Unfortunately with strict aliasing violations, we will often obtain the results we expect, leaving the possibility the a future version of a compiler with a new optimization will break code we th

EvgenyOrekhov

Unofficial POSIX Shell Strict Mode

Inspired by:

• Use the Unofficial Bash Strict Mode (Unless You Looove Debugging)
• Unofficial Bash Strict Mode

benwattsjones

#! /usr/bin/env python3
# ~*~ utf-8 ~*~

import mailbox
import bs4

def get_html_text(html):
    try:
        return bs4.BeautifulSoup(html, 'lxml').body.get_text(' ', strip=True)
    except AttributeError: # message contents empty