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from argparse to dictionary in python 2.7

Posted on August 4, 2012 by ctb — 10 Comments

I’ve used python’s argparse module in the past to get command line options for scripts. It provides built-in help, which is nice, and support for both positional and optional arguments. The inelegant way I’ve used it in the past, though,…

google tasks script rewritten and moved to github

Posted on September 9, 2011 by ctb — 5 Comments

I finally got around to rewriting my google tasks script (see previous posts here and here. The script has generated a fair amount of interest for this blog. After intending to do it for a while, I finally rewrote the…

dterm- the popup cli

Posted on May 26, 2011 by ctb — 1 Comment

Yesterday I posted my new workflow for writing with markdown for this blog. Today I’m adding a very nifty tool to that workflow, which enables me to post a finished draft directly from any text editor. Dterm is a cool,…