Call for snippets

[Hans Nowak]

Hello,

Some of you may have noticed that I have a snippets site since a few 
months. (In this definition, snippets are pieces of working Python 
code, usually demonstrating something or solving a problem.) Until 
now, I have extracted them from newsgroup messages. This isn't an 
ideal situation, because there are lots of messages which I all have 
to read, and I don't really have the time for that. (Yeah I know... 
sacrilege... :^)

This isn't really a problem though. What does bother me is that my 
collection isn't growing very rapidly. I have 119 snippets online 
now, with 100+ still residing on my harddisk, untested. It's a start, 
but there really isn't much progress, mainly because of the reasons 
mentioned above. I have a feeling that there is a lot of good and 
useful code there but that I have to wait until it accidentally shows 
up in the newsgroup, triggered by somebody's question.

So, my request is obvious. I would ask everyone to browse through 
their code and see if they have any interesting, useful or just plain 
cool snippets. I'm not really picky; a nifty function would do. I am 
not really looking for complete modules since I have a snippet 
repository, not a module repository (nor anything like CPAN, the 
pyPit, etc), but I won't refuse them. In fact, anything that solves 
any problem could be a valuable snippets. I'd almost say, 'when in 
doubt, post your code'. <g>  I'd go even farther: if you have Python 
code somewhere and think there might be interesting functions in it, 
I would be pleased if you pointed me to it; I will scan and extract 
them myself.

My goal is to have a site where both newbies and more advanced coders 
could go to see how to do something in Python, or how to do something 
*differently* if they already have some solution, because more 
snippets can tackle the same problem. But in order to do that I need 
some more code! Or at least a larger base. <wish> Now if everyone 
reading this ng would post at least one snippet, there would be an 
explosive growth... </wish>

¥ou can check out the page at http://www.hvision.nl/~ivnowa/snippets/ 
. It's (of course) still under construction. Snippets and comments 
can be sent to (feeble spam protection) ivnowa @ hvision . nl or 
hnowak @ cuci . nl. (The address mentioned on the side is actually 
obsolete. I will remove it.)

Thanks in advance,

Hans Nowak (ivnowa at hvision.nl)
Homepage: http://fly.to/zephyrfalcon