gpx2svg 0.1.3

I just uploaded the new release 0.1.3 of gpx2svg. It's only a bugfix release. Here are the changes:

• Changed the shebang line so that gpx2svg now also runs on Mac.
• Changed the use of the literal /dev/stdin and /dev/stdout to sys.stdin and sys.stdout. Hopefully, gpx2svg will now also work on Windows (not tested).
• Overall code cleanup

serienbrief 0.2.5

Been a long time since the last release (back in 2012!). So it was about time: I just uploaded the new version of serienbrief, the LaTeX form letter creator. From the ChangeLog:

New feature (it's only one ;-):

• Added the possibility to define custom output file names via the newly introduced "--outpattern" option.

Bugfixes/Changes:

• Skip empty lines in the database file.
• Fixed problems with Windows style line ends in database files on Windows.
• Overall code cleanup/sanitization.

Thanks to Thorsten Grothe for bug reporting and beta testing!

Have a lot of fun with it!

QString::simplified() in Python

Just in case anybody searches for a Python pendant of QString::simplified(): This is surprisingly easy to do:

def simplify(string):
    return ' '.join(string.strip().split())

If one wants to subclass a Python string and add the above function, this can be done e. g. like so (subclassing a string is a bit tricky, as one needs to mess with the __new__ function instead of the "normal" __init__ one):

class NewString(str):
    def __new__(self, value):
        return str.__new__(self, value)
    def simplified(self):
        return ' '.join(self.strip().split())

This can then be used like so:

>>> someString = NewString('    a   lot of    tabs      and  spaces   ')
>>> someString
'\ta   lot of    tabs\tand  spaces   '
>>> someString.simplified()
'a lot of tabs and spaces'

b8 0.6.1

I just uploaded the new release 0.6.1 of the PHP spam filter b8.

From the ChangeLog:

• Fixed the theoretical possibility for an SQL injection. Thanks to Dirk Stolle for the bug report!
• Added a backend for PostgreSQL, written by Tom Regner
• Added a MySQL backend using the new mysqli_* functions instead of the legacy mysql_* ones. Thanks to Lorenzo Masetti for the initial port!

Everybody is encouraged to use the new version. Nothing in the configuration or database has been changed, so the new version can be used as a drop-in replacement.