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Printing unicode to windows terminal from scratch (2.7)

Posted on November 2, 2019 by tb

Python 2.7 is dying, but still, here is a way to print a unicode string without requiring users to edit python stdlib files or changing code pages (both being both scary and inconvenient). I can’t imagine this being anything but … Continue reading →

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sphinx :: adding a new theme

Posted on April 3, 2011 by tb

Sphinx (http://sphinx.pocoo.org/) has made our internal documentation effort go a lot smoother, and the autodoc extension has provided much needed motivation for writing useful docstrings. For those unfamiliar with autodoc, a simple declaration in your documentation file: [sourcecode language=”python”] .. … Continue reading →

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css :: simple hbox

Posted on February 20, 2011 by admin

A hbox is a horizontal box. That means a box where all sub-elements display horizontally across the page, and never wrap. If you can disregard IE6 (and perhaps IE7… at least IETester doesn’t like it), then a hbox can be … Continue reading →

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new photo frame: pdf to jpg conversion

Posted on January 9, 2011 by admin

I got a new digital photo frame for xmas, and it is big enough that I wanted to use it to display the score sheets while I play the piano.  Only problem:  music scores frequently come as pdf files, and … Continue reading →

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