I needed to remove the first and last pages of a hold lot of .pdf files on a Mac. It wasn’t that easy to find solutions and so I thought I would document the process: 1 – Install pdftk server which rather helpfully has a Mac installer: https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-server/ Run the commands To remove the first … Read more
I’ve just scanned in some old copies of Trail walking magazine. I had around 150 .pdf files in a directors and needed to break the split them every two pages. I thought my python script might be useful to someone. It used pypdf which you easierly install using: The script is as follows: I hope … Read more
I was trying to sftp some files using Python Paramiko on Ubuntu 14.04 and got the following error: “paramiko.SSHException: Incompatible ssh peer (no acceptable kex algorithm)”. It turns out that there is an incompatibility issue with OpenSSH 6.7 and Paramiko with a version less than 1.15.1. At the time of writing (November 2014) Ubuntu 14.04 … Read more
If you have cut a pasted the demo.py script from Paramiko to test is working on your server then you might get this error: There isn’t a python module called interactive – you need to download the interactive.py file which is included in the same folder as the demo application.
I’m just playing around with Python Twitter Tools but given that I am new to Python, I can’t work out to set it up. Step 1: Download and unzip the files from: https://github.com/sixohsix/twitter Step 3: Install python-pip on your computer which is a tool for installiing Python software: apt-get install python-pip Step 4: Browse the … Read more
I wanted to pipe the output of my Apache’s error logs to a Python script. To do this you need to set the a CustomLog directive in your Apache Config. Edit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default and add the following line: To read the input into Python you need to setup a non-blocking read from stdin. Obviously, this script … Read more