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Form extractor from word to Excel PDF Print E-mail
I had a bunch of filled out word documents with word forms in them and neded them in Excel. initially i tried CSV but it didn't play nice with encodings. So I decided to write directly to XLS.

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Number of Google backlinks PDF Print E-mail

This script shows (by web scraping) the number of backlinks which Google found.

import datetime, urllib2, re
 
url='http://google.com/search?' # Set web search URL
hits={'link':'http://www.goermezer.de/'}
 
# Generate web search term
hits['web search term']=urllib2.quote('link:'+hits['link'])
 
# Execute web search
urlstr='%sq=%s'%(url,hits['web search term'])
url=urllib2.Request(urlstr)
url.add_header('User-Agent','')
url=urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
 
# Store date and time of web search
hits['datetimeutc']=datetime.datetime.utcnow().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
 
# Parse web search results to determine hits
hits['hits']=re.search('Results <b>1</b> - <b>10</b> of about <b>(?P<hits>.+?)</b>',url)
if hits['hits']!=None:
    hits['hits']=hits['hits'].group('hits')
    hits['hits']=hits['hits'].replace(',','')
    hits['hits']=int(hits['hits'])
else:
    hits['hits']=0
 
print hits['hits']

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Change Desktop color with ctypes PDF Print E-mail 
 
from ctypes.wintypes import windll, c_int, byref, RGB
COLOR_BACKGROUND = 1 # from winuser.h or win32con
SetSysColors = windll.user32.SetSysColors
which_color = RGB(255,0,0) # red
SetSysColors(1, byref(c_int(COLOR_BACKGROUND)), byref(c_int(which_color)))

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Windows progress dialog PDF Print E-mail
An example how to use VBa IProgressDialog interface from Python: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576821/

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Create image watermarks with PIL PDF Print E-mail
Another script from http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576818/ to create watermarks with images: 
 
import Image, ImageEnhance, os
from os.path import join
 
def test():
    batch("/media/disk/pics", "/home/hasanat/outputfolder/", "/home/hasanat/watermark.png")
 
def batch(infolder, outfolder, watermark):
    mark = Image.open(watermark)
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(infolder):
        for name in files:        try:
            im = Image.open(join(root, name))
            if im.mode != 'RGBA':
                im = im.convert('RGBA')
            layer = Image.new('RGBA', im.size, (0,0,0,0))
            position = (im.size[0]-mark.size[0], im.size[1]-mark.size[1])
            layer.paste(mark, position)
            Image.composite(layer, im, layer).save( join(outfolder, name))
        except Exception, (msg):
            print msg
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
    test()

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