Python Snippets

def Property(f):
    fget, fset, fdel = f()
    fdoc = f.__doc__
    return property(fget, fset, fdel, fdoc)

import socket

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
s.connect(("tty.cl",80))
print s.getsockname()

import sys
import traceback
from StringIO import StringIO

def print_exc(tb=None):
    """
    Print the usual traceback information, followed by a listing of all the
    local variables in each frame.

    :rtype StringIO.StringIO: all the traceback information
    """
    output = StringIO()

    if tb == None:
        print sys.exc_info()
        tb = sys.exc_info()[2]

    print tb

    while 1:
        if not tb.tb_next:
            break
        tb = tb.tb_next
    stack = []
    f = tb.tb_frame
    while f:
        stack.append(f)
        f = f.f_back
    stack.reverse()
    output.write("Locals by frame, innermost last\n")
    for frame in stack:
        output.write("Frame %s in %s at line %s\n" % (frame.f_code.co_name,
                                                      frame.f_code.co_filename,
                                                      frame.f_lineno))
        for key, value in frame.f_locals.items():
            output.write("\t%20s = " % key)
            #We have to be careful not to cause a new error in our error
            #printer! Calling str() on an unknown object could cause an
            #error we don't want.
            try:
                output.write("%s\n" % value)
            except:
                output.write("<ERROR WHILE PRINTING VALUE>\n")

import logging

class SMSHandler(logging.Handler): # Inherit from logging.Handler
    def emit(self, record):
        print record
        import pdb
        pdb.set_trace()

import logging.handlers

# Create a logging object (after configuring logging)
logging.basicConfig(filename="as",level=logging.WARNING)
logger = logging.getLogger()

# A little trickery because, at least for me, directly creating
# an SMSHandler object didn't work
logging.handlers.SMSHandler = SMSHandler

# create the handler object
testHandler = logging.handlers.SMSHandler()
# Configure the handler to only send SMS for critical errors
testHandler.setLevel(logging.CRITICAL)

# and finally we add the handler to the logging object
logger.addHandler(testHandler)

# And finally a test
logger.debug('Test 1')
logger.info('Test 2')
logger.warning('Test 3')
logger.error('Test 4')
logger.critical('Test 5')

import json
import datetime

DATETIME_FORMAT = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"

class JSONEncoder(json.JSONEncoder):
    def default(self, obj):
        if isinstance(obj, datetime.datetime):
            return obj.strftime(DATETIME_FORMAT)
        else:
            return super(JSONEncoder, self).default(obj)


class JSONDecoder(json.JSONDecoder):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        json.JSONDecoder.__init__(self, *args,
                                  object_hook=self.object_hook, **kwargs)

    def object_hook(self, obj):
        if isinstance(obj, dict):
            for key in obj:
                if not isinstance(obj[key], basestring):
                    continue
                try:
                    obj[key] = datetime.datetime.strptime(obj[key],
                                                          DATETIME_FORMAT)
                except ValueError:
                    pass

        return obj

if __name__ == "__main__":
    encoder = JSONEncoder()
    print encoder.encode({"date": datetime.datetime.now()})

    decoder = JSONDecoder()
    print decoder.decode(encoder.encode({"date": datetime.datetime.now()}))

import smtplib
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
from email.Utils import COMMASPACE, formatdate
from email import Encoders
import os

def sendMail(to, subject, text, files=[],server="localhost"):
    assert type(to)==list
    assert type(files)==list
    fro = "Expediteur <expediteur@mail.com>"

    msg = MIMEMultipart()
    msg['From'] = fro
    msg['To'] = COMMASPACE.join(to)
    msg['Date'] = formatdate(localtime=True)
    msg['Subject'] = subject

    msg.attach( MIMEText(text) )

    for file in files:
        part = MIMEBase('application', "octet-stream")
        part.set_payload( open(file,"rb").read() )
        Encoders.encode_base64(part)
        part.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename="%s"'
                       % os.path.basename(file))
        msg.attach(part)

    smtp = smtplib.SMTP(server)
    smtp.sendmail(fro, to, msg.as_string() )
    smtp.close()


sendMail(
        ["destination@dest.kio"],
        "hello","cheers",
        ["photo.jpg","memo.sxw"]
    )

Original snippet available at http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/757