> 4) Miscellaneous other stuff like grabbing all of the comic > strips I like every day and putting them on a local web > page so I can read them all in one place
I wonder how many other folks have done this too. It was my first pet Python project, converting a Java rendition of the same app into Python. Shorter, clearer, faster, better... Mine uses my older Java config file (which, while tinkering with Java's XML libraries, ended up being XML), supports Referrer/Referer spoofing, searches pages for regexps so that I can find image URLs that have been munged with random numbers (like dilbert.com does). It then builds a local HTML file that points at all the locally-saved images. I wonder what other sorts of features folks have added in their comic-snatchers... I tried a multi-threaded version in Java, but had problems with it saturating my dialup connection, and returning some sort of errors (perhaps in violation of HTTP's suggestion that one only have, IIRC, 2 connections to a server at a given time). I might try it again with Python. I saw some function-call fly by recently that looked like it took a function reference and an array of parameter-arrays, and spawned a thread for each function. I foolishly deleted that message, but it shouldn't be too hard to scare up again. I think it involved importing something from the future. A nice little status-GUI would be a nice addition, but I'm too lazy to go that far, leaving it with just a TUI. Might be a good way to learn Python GUI programming... -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
