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How to Permanently Dowload Any Book You Can Borrow on archive.org as a PDF

archive.org has a digital library that lets you borrow books on an hourly basis. Want to save those books as a PDF for offline reading? We have a GitHub repo and script that will let you do just that.

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How to Permanently Dowload Any Book You Can Borrow on archive.org as a PDF

Implement a Plugin Architecture in Python with Only Two Lines of Code!

I've been doing a ton of Python coding lately and one thing I've really appreciated is how easy it is to implement a plugin system. When would you use this?  If you're shipping code, you may want to i...

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Implement a Plugin Architecture in Python with Only Two Lines of Code!

Config Files are Trivial: Python's configparser Module

As you can probably tell by this being the second Python article this weekend, I've been doing a bit of Python coding, both at work and at home.  It's a pleasant language to work in, and one of Python...

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Config Files are Trivial: Python's configparser Module

Command-Line Argument Processing for the Lazy: Python's argparse Module

Like many of you, I write a lot of throwaway scripts to do a task.  These are quick undocumented 20-line blobs of code that do janitorial or maintenance tasks and they're deleted almost as soon as the...

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Command-Line Argument Processing for the Lazy: Python's argparse Module

Here Today, Gone When You Exit: Proper Tempfiles in Shell Scripts

In the course of my career, I've periodically come across code like this in shell scripts: TEMP_FILE=/tmp/tempfile Or sometimes, slightly more elegantly: TEMPFILE=/tmp/tempfile.$$ The problems with th...

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Here Today, Gone When You Exit: Proper Tempfiles in Shell Scripts

How to Build Your Own Web Crawler Using an Ubuntu VPS

If you want to learn how to build your own web crawler using a VPS, have you considered using Scrapy? In this installment of LowEndTutorials, we’ll go over the basic functions of the Scrapy web crawli...

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How to Build Your Own Web Crawler Using an Ubuntu VPS

Automated encrypted backups with Duplicity

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a tutorial on how to use duplicity to make encrypted, incremental backups over various available protocols. The process was a manual one, though, and would always requir...

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Automated encrypted backups with Duplicity

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