A simple demo of the google maps API

If a visitor comes to your site from a search engine such as Google or Yahoo, this function will highlight the keywords in a given text the user used for his search.

This is snippet of code solves the interesting (and specialized) problem of generating all permutations of a list. I hope you like recursion. For exmaple:

permute( [0,1,2] )

would return

[[0,1,2],[0,2,1],[1,0,2],[1,2,0],[2,0,1],[2,1,0]]

Returns a safe copy if the value argument is mutable, otherwise returns the original argument. If the feedback keyword argument is True, then a tuple is returned containing the resulting argument, and whether or not is was mutable.

Reads well formed RSS entries using standard python libraries

Quick way to get the users home directory in Unix/Linux and Windows

This python class converts a permission mask in symbolic format (the kind a diretcory listing produces, ex.: drwxr-xr-x) to a string that's usable in a chmod command.

ex.: chmod u=rwx,g=rwx,o=rwtx ~/myscripts/convert_mask.py

This can be very useful when recovering permissions from a backup.

Python example set-up script from python.org docs.

This class allows you to retrieve a companies current stock quote from Yahoo Finance, as well as current news feed entries for that company.

Copies files from nested folders into one source, flat directory.