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Sorting pages in Scribus

2008-05-31 02:55

Doing the layout of our Abiblatt, I had to sort the pages in a 84 pages long Scribus document. I was able to figure out which page had to be put where using the Scribus Scripter, but unfortunately, in the current version of the scripter, there is no easy way to move objects to different pages, or to move pages around.

Easter Egg

2008-05-26 12:04
>>> import this
The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters

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(Von der Open Source Expo aus)

Links 2008-05-04

2008-05-04 14:39

In case I should happen to get bored, two Python links for myself:

Mumble & murmur 1.1.3 gentoo overlay

2008-03-23 22:49

On February 25th, version 1.1.3 of the free voice chatroom software Mumble was released. Mumble is open source and provides low latency, good voice quality and, starting with version 1.1.0, also full encryption and authentication for all client-server-communication. Mumble currently is available for Linux and MS Windows.

Don't unicode.encode() during module import

2008-01-24 19:19

I just had a piece of software where a simple code snippet like this would hang Python:

u = u'x'
s = u.encode('UTF-8')

The issue was not limited to UTF-8, .encode()ing it to e.g. US-ASCII made Python hang as well. The Python execution would simply stop at the .encode() call.