Category Archives: Python

Debugging python-novaclient on the command line.

Posted on 2 September, 2011 by chmouel

I have done lately quite a bit of work with python-novaclient the (nova/keystone) openstack client. I often experiment it with ipython in the console. There is a nice debugging facility in novaclient which you can see while using –debug argument … Continue reading →

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Installing python-cloudfiles from pypi

Posted on 16 February, 2011 by chmouel

I have just uploaded python-cloudfiles to pypi available here This make things easy to add as a dependence of your project like you can have something like this in your setup.py : requirements = ['python-cloudfiles'] and it will automatically download … Continue reading →

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Python decorator to argument checking

Posted on 29 July, 2010 by chmouel

I am sure there is billions or more people who already done that but I needed this quickly for my project and was not feeling googling around :

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Get Facebook albums with python

Posted on 9 January, 2010 by chmouel

Since I haven’t see much script like this around the web here is a quick script to suck bunch of albums from facebooks (your own) nothing fancy just something to get you started with pyfacebook. #!/usr/bin/python import os import urllib … Continue reading →

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Twitter notification of replies by Email

Posted on 7 January, 2010 by chmouel

I don’t check very often my twitter to know when someone replies and I find it hard to figure out what’s going on when i check a couple of days after even using a client showing only the reply (my … Continue reading →

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XMPP notification for irssi running in a screen on a remote host

Posted on 20 December, 2009 by chmouel

Like a lot of people I have my irssi on a server in a screen. This has been working great so far but my only concerns are the notifications on the desktop when something happening. Over the time I have … Continue reading →

Posted in Linux, Misc, Python | 1 Comment

Accessing to Rackspace Cloud Files via servicenet (update)

Posted on 20 October, 2009 by chmouel

Last week I have posted an article explaining how to connect to Rackspace Cloud Files via Rackspace ServiceNET but I actually got it wrong as pointed by my great colleague exlt so I had to take it down until figured … Continue reading →

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How to connect to Rackspace Cloud Files via ServiceNET

Posted on 14 October, 2009 by chmouel

If you are a Rackspace customer and you are are planning to use Rackspace Cloud Files via it’s internal network (ServiceNet) so you don’t get billed for the bandwidth going over Cloud Files this is how you can do. The first thing is … Continue reading →

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python syntax warning in emacs

Posted on 31 August, 2009 by chmouel

One of the best feature to have with Emacs when doing python development is to have a real time syntax error/warning check highlighted in your code to avoid many errors or superfluous code. This code is taken from the brillant … Continue reading →

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Yum Force Exclude List

Posted on 20 March, 2008 by chmouel

While talking with my fellow colleague Darren Birkett about what seems a design limitation of yum to not be able to force listing the excludes from yum. I had a shoot to make a yum plugin to force listing the … Continue reading →

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