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#!/usr/bin/env python

class TimeExceededError(Exception):pass
def run_cmd(cmd, timeout = 0):
    import signal
    def alarmHandler(signum, frame):
        raise TimeExceededError, "Took too long to execute"
    signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, alarmHandler)
    signal.alarm(1)

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#!/usr/bin/env python
import yaml
from jabberbot import JabberBot
from beanstalkc import Connection as BSC

def connect_beanstalk(host = "127.0.0.1", port = "11300", tube = None):
    try:
        c = BSC()
    except:
        return None

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#!/usr/bin/env python2.6
# Converts an arbitrary file to MIDI. Obviously.

# Note the output files can be.. long (a 25KiB file becomes about 10 hours),
# and may cause players to lockup while opening (the aforementioned 10 hour
# file took Quicktime Player 7 about 5-10 seconds to open)

import smidi

def fileToMidi(input_fname, output_fname):

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import os
import re
import platform

def makeValidFilename(value, normalize_unicode = False, windows_safe = False, custom_blacklist = None):
    """
    Takes a string and makes it into a valid filename.

    normalize_unicode replaces accented characters with ASCII equivalent, and
    removes characters that cannot be converted sensibly to ASCII.

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#!/usr/bin/env python2.6
"""Twitter's "advanced" search can't seem to find a users tweet from more
than a few days ago, so I wrote this simple function to do so.

Not good code, not very efficient, only finds the most recent occurrence of
the word.. but it worked for what I needed
"""
import urllib
import simplejson as json

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#!/usr/bin/env python2.6
"""Simple script to names TV episode by first aired date.
 
Files must be organised as follows:
 
    ./ShowName/20091130-anything.ext
 
For example:
 
    ./Scrubs/20050118.avi

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"""Calculates how long a password might take to brute force
"""

def chunks(l, n):
    for i in xrange(0, len(l), n):
        yield l[i:i+n]

def human_readable_number(n):
    return ",".join(list(chunks(str(n)[::-1],3)))[::-1]

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#!/usr/bin/env python2.6
"""Simple script to names TV episode by episode name.
 
Files must be named as follows:
 
    ./ShowName - Episode Name.ext
 
For example:
 
    ./Scrubs - My First Day.avi

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#!/usr/bin/env python2.6

"""Processes fxphd.com class ZIP files, by copying the archive to a specified
location, then extracting this into a specified path.

Directory structure is:

    /example/fxphd/10jan_term/
                                archives/
                                preview_classes/

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"""Nuke/Python script that displays the selected node in the DAG
using a lot of node postage-stamps.. Not *exactly* useful..

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/923/nukenodalimgviewer.png
"""

import nuke

def getRGB(node, x, y):
    return [node.sample(chan, x, y) for chan in ['red', 'green', 'blue']]