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jkominek/resistor_color_labels.py

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Generate some HTML you can print and cut apart to make labels for drawers of resistors
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resistor_color_labels.py
#!/usr/bin/python
# resistor colors
colors = [ 'black', '#964b00', 'red', '#ffa500', 'yellow',
'#9acd32', '#6495ed', '#ee82ee', 'gray', 'white' ]
# borders around some of the lighter colors
border = [ 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1 ]
out = open("labels.html","wb")
out.write("<html><body><table>")
chunks = [ ]
for i in range(10, 100):
a = i // 10
b = i % 10
chunks.append("""
<span style="bottom-padding:2em;">
<svg width="1.5in" height="0.75in" style="text-anchor:middle;">
<rect width="0.375in" height="0.75in" style="fill:%s;stroke-width:%i;stroke:black" />
<text x="0.5625in" y="0.65in" style="stroke:none; font-size:0.75in;">%i</text>
<text x="0.9375in" y="0.65in" style="stroke:none; font-size:0.75in;">%i</text>
<rect x="1.125in" width="0.375in" height="0.75in" style="fill:%s;stroke-width:%i;stroke:black" />
</svg>
</span>
""" % (colors[a], border[a], a, b, colors[b], border[b]))
s = 0
while s<100:
row = "".join([ "<td style='padding:1em;'>%s</td>" % (c,) for c in chunks[s:s+4] ])
out.write("<tr>"+row+"</tr>")
s += 4
out.write("</table></body></html>")
out.flush()
out.close()
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jkominek commented Sep 9, 2014

oh, and it is public domain. or ISC license if you live somewhere public domain doesn't exist. or whatever license you want.

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