Free Python Scripts

Text files are most often read by-line, with excellent direct Python support. Sometimes you need to use other units, such as the paragraph — a sequence of non-empty lines

dir2ogg is a python script which converts mp3, m4a, wma, and wav files into ogg-vorbis format.
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This application will synchronize all the files and all the sub-directories, and prompt the user to confirm all the moves.

It’s written in python and with wxPython.

This CGI script will generate a simple text ‘hit counter’ for several sites. Useful to count visitors to the ‘front door’ of your website.

Optik is a powerful, flexible, extensible, easy-to-use command-line parsing library for Python. Using Optik, you can add intelligent, sophisticated handling of command-line opt

This script allows you to perform a quick test to see if a file or string contains text or is binary. The difference between text and binary is ill-defined, so this duplic

This script shows how to transfer large files with Twisted Perspective Broker using twisted.spread.util.Pager.

This script uses an efficient way to tranform a file’s text to something else, with conditions for few lines.

This script allows you to run a Calendar/scheduler written in Python.

Uses self-contained sqlite database for multiple users/schedules

Advogato (http://www.advogato.org) exports members’ diaries in a simple XML format. This script fetches the entries and stores them in a dictionary keyed by date.