Some peculiarities about Java PrintWriter: PrintWriter never throws any exceptions. From JavaDoc : Methods in this class never throw I/O exceptions, although some of its constructors may. The client may inquire as to whether any errors have occurred by invoking checkError(). When error occurs, you'll never know anything more than that it occured, because checkError returns boolean. When a character is out of the range of the character encoding of the PrintWriter, it prints a question mark (?). But this is not an error. Test code: import java.io.*; public class TestPrintWri... Latin1 test result: java TestPrintWriter iso-8859-1 | od -bc 000000... UTF-8 test result: java TestPrintWriter utf-8 | od -bc 0000000 141... Also, the constructor throws a FileNotFoundException when you try to write to a...

To create a zipfile in python: Code: #!/usr/local/bin/python import zipfile #... Test unzip -l test.zip Archive: test.zip Lengt... To read a zipfile in python: Code: #!/usr/local/bin/python import zipfile #...

Use the codecs module to read file in Unicode. This is from the Python doc : import codecs f = codecs.open('unicode.rst', en... I had some luck reading files mainly in ASCII but contained some binary data with: import codecs f = codecs.open('unicode.rst', en...

For Python 2.6 and later, this: with open(filename) as logfile: for line in... is equivalent to this: logfile = open(filename) try: for line i...

open(IMG, "Sample.jpg") or die "Can't open file: $...

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SIKULI is Jython. AutoPy is Python. Both use bitmaps to find areas of interest. It seems that SIKULI comes with an IDE but AutoPy doesn't. A sample SIKULI script captured from the project site: A sample AutoPy script from the project site: import autopy def where_is_the_monkey_i_say(): ...

Video taken with the Canon SD1200 camera comes in the AVI format, where the video is MJPEG and the audio is PCM. For some weird reason it doesn't play on my Windows XP box! The video is sluggish and the audio is often interrupted. But it works fine on my old Windows 2000 box. Since it's taking too much space anyway, I used mencoder to compress the video with XVID encoding and audio with MP3. This is the script. #!/usr/bin/perl $destdir = "C:/Documents and Se... Tools used: Mencoder: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ Mediainfo: http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net

This is an Ant custom task to merge Properties files I lifted from http://marc.info/?l=ant-user&m=106442688632164&w=2 , with some minor bug fixes. Example usage: <taskdef name="mergeProperty" classname="ant.task.... Implementation: package ant.task.addon; import java.io.Buff...

It's quite easy for Perl to open a pipe and read from it: $file = "nospace.txt"; open(IN, "cat $file |") ... But the code breaks when the file name contains a space: # This does not work! $file = "yes space.txt"; ... On Windows, these don't work either: # This does not work! $file = "yes space.txt"; ... You need to use a technique called Safe Pipe Opens : $file = "yes space.txt"; $prog = "cat"; ...