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Ok, this has been mentioned elsewhere already, but I thought I would post it to my site too. Got Python? (get it if you don’t!) Need a quick webserver? (who doesn’t!?) Try this from the command line:
python -c ‘import SimpleHTTPServer;SimpleHTTPServer.test()’
Bam. Instant web server. Serving on port 8000 from the directory [...]

My milter had a hiccup today. I had it inserting a warning message into the first payload of a MIME multipart email if that email contained a .zip attachment - assuming that the first payload was the message body - wooops. So now, it itterates through the email.Message.Message object with the Message.walk() method [...]

Wow - it’s been a while since I have said anything.
Moving on - I have been doing some stuff at work with python and the senmail mail filter API (called milters).. I have created a milter that examines email messages and strips off dangerous attachments (exe, pif, scr - the stuff of viruses), inserts [...]

Here are a couple good articles on network programming. They go through writing simple network clients in Python. Read them. Even if you are not a programmer. You will have a better idea of how network programs like web browsers work. You might even think it’s interesting.
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In the last week or so I have discovered the wonderful world of Microsoft’s Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). Being a huge corporation, there are certain things that MS pulls of quite well, and WMI is one of them. Here is how to get at the running process data using Python and WMI (my [...]

Ok, here is the code sample I promised. This was the best way I could come up with to get the Exchange email address of an Active Directory user when all I knew was their SAM account name. The following Python code worked for me running on Win32:

import win32com.client
def getEmail(user):
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Well, it’s been a while since I have posted anything about Python. That doesn’t mean that the snake has lost it’s grip on me (wow, that’s corny). Lately I have been working on COM programming on Win32. I am trying to create a CGI script that will connect to an Exchange server [...]

Though I thought about blogging about using the words “Ok” and “Okay” in my last entry, I didn’t want to fall down that slipperly slope.
So instead I ask for some inspiration. I have come to find out that I really enjoy writing computer programs. Maybe it’s some sort of primal tool making desire [...]

I just added a new page with information about my cardinfo utility for the Cisco Aironet series of cards running under Linux. It’s a decent little program for getting signal strength, signal quality and link status of a card. It displays that data in one small window. I have a screenshot of [...]

So you all probably thought that I just ditched the whole python thing after my “wildly successful” system tray utility for Big Brother, didn’t you? Well, that is not the case.
I have had a couple recent victories at work with python. The first came when I learned that I needed to have all [...]