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"""Get your "Saved Stories" articles from Apple News

Thanks to Dave Bullock (https://github.com/eecue) who's idea this was and who wrote the extract_info_from_apple_news function

This script requires the following modules be pip installed:
    * bs4
    * requests

Save this script to a file called news.py and run it with Python 3.9 or later

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#!/bin/bash

# Simple script to open the macOS Finder's "Info Window" for a file or folder.
# Usage: finfo [file or folder]

# This relies on realpath being installed (brew install coreutils)

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
    echo "Usage: finfo [file or folder]"
    exit 1

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"""Set metadata on macOS files using undocumented function MDItemSetAttribute

Background: Apple provides MDItemCopyAttribute to get metadata from files:
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreservices/1427080-mditemcopyattribute?language=objc

but does not provide a documented way to set file metadata.

This script shows how to use the undocumented function MDItemSetAttribute to do so.

`pip install pyobjc` to install the required Python<-->Objective C bridge package.

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"""Uses CoreImage API via PyObjC to detect QR Codes in images on MacOS.  

This is a simple wrapper around the CIDetector API and only returns the text of the QR Code.
It does not return the location of the QR Code in the image.

Reference: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreimage/cidetector/detector_types?language=objc
"""

from typing import List

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"""Simple decorator that applies f-string formatting to docstrings

To use, simply apply `@fmydocstring` to your function

Only global variables are accessible for interpolation.
"""

import functools

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"""Update favorites in Photos based on values in a JSON file produced by this iOS Shortcut: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/2057bcae53b146b3847260dc0cced1b6

First install osxphotos: https://github.com/RhetTbull/osxphotos
Run with `osxphotos run update_favorites.py --help` to see help

The input JSON file has form:

{"28":{"date":"2021-08-05 13:18:37.232-0700","name":"IMG_5702"}}

Where "28" is the index (not used), date is photo creation date and name is stem of photo name.

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"""Programatically set the Mac Desktop wallpaper from python

Also shows how to load a framework with pyobjc

Source: https://github.com/jbmorley/download-bing-image
"""

import objc
from CoreFoundation import CFUUIDCreateFromString
from Foundation import NSBundle

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"""Get offset seconds from UTC from a datetime"""

import datetime

time1 = datetime.datetime(2021, 9, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)
offset_seconds = time1.tzinfo.utcoffset(time1).total_seconds()
print(time1, offset_seconds)

time2 = datetime.datetime(
    2021, 9, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, tzinfo=datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(seconds=-25200))

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#!/bin/sh
# Refuse to commit files with the string ZZZ present
# I frequently use ZZZ to mark a spot where I'm working on an issue so I can come back to it
#

NOCOMMIT="ZZZ"

files=$(git diff-index --name-status --cached HEAD | grep -v ^D | cut -c3-)

if [ "$files" != "" ]

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# From https://stackoverflow.com/a/68876046/1319998, which is itself inspired by https://stackoverflow.com/a/68814418/1319998

from contextlib import contextmanager
from collections import namedtuple
from ctypes import cdll, byref, string_at, c_char_p, c_int, c_double, c_int64, c_void_p
from sys import platform


def query(db_file, sql, params=()):
    libsqlite3 = cdll.LoadLibrary({'linux': 'libsqlite3.so', 'darwin': 'libsqlite3.dylib'}[platform])