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Monthly Archives: December 2009

Python Unicode ASCII-ifier

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

At work we maintain a SDA Archive for analyzing our panels and data. It’s nice, but unfortunately doesn’t support unicode, particularly in the dataset. We translate unicode characters in the metadata to XML character reference entities, which works well for displaying that (v3.4 supports UTF-8 for metadata). This is done simply by using the built [...]

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Easy backup cleanups

Friday, December 4, 2009

I often create little cron jobs that create backups of various things on linux systems. Typically there’s a baks dir that has a tarball for each day with some clever name like ‘bak-2009-12-04.tar.gz’. This works well, but it can be a little difficult to clean the directory up without moving to a much more complicated [...]

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