Monthly Archives: April 2005

Textual watermarks with Python Imaging Library

Posted on 2005/04/15 by niemeyer

I’ve added a new snippet about doing watermarks with PIL.

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Article and discussions about Smart

Posted on 2005/04/13 by niemeyer

FedoraNEWS has a nice article about Smart, posted by Xanax. FedoraForum also has a thread about it, as Ian MacGregor notified me.

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Decorator for automatic inclusion of function definition in __doc__

Posted on 2005/04/13 by niemeyer

Python 2.4 included support for function decorators. Decorators are callable objects that may modify a given function or class method arbitrarily when they’re prepended with specific syntax to the function/method definition. The following code implements a decorator that will automatically … Continue reading →

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Problem of the Week at University of Massachusetts

Posted on 2005/04/10 by niemeyer

University of Massachusetts has a very nice Problem of the Week service where they post a new math related problem every monday. At that time they report the percentage of people that correctly answered the question as well. To submit … Continue reading →

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Petals Around the Rose

Posted on 2005/04/10 by niemeyer

Petals Around the Rose is an interesting brain teaser. Here is a copy of the game description: The name of the game is Petals Around the Rose. The name of the game is important. The computer will roll five dice … Continue reading →

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All combinations of N elements

Posted on 2005/04/08 by niemeyer

Here’s a snippet to compute all combinations of N elements over K positions.

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Permutations of all subsets

Posted on 2005/04/08 by niemeyer

Another snippet to compute the permutations of all subsets.

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