Automation & scripting
CLI tools, scheduled jobs, filesystem tasks, and glue scripts that save time.
Build a Live Countdown Timer for Events in Python
A Python script that displays a real-time countdown to a target date and time, updating every second in the console.
import datetime
import time
def countdown(event_name, target_datetime):
"""Displays a live countdown to a target datetime."""
while True:
now = datetime.datetime.now()
remaining = target_datetime - now
if remaining.total_seconds() <= 0:
print(f"\n🚀 {event_name} is happening…Download Images from a Web Page Automatically in Python
Scrape all images from a webpage, filter by extension, and save them to a local folder using requests and BeautifulSoup.
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from urllib.parse import urljoin
import os
def download_images(url, output_folder="downloaded_images"):
"""Download all images from a given URL."""
os.makedirs(output_folder, exist_ok=True)
response = requests.get(url)
response.raise_for_status()
…How to Generate Project Statistics Including Lines of Code and Complexity in Python
Walk through a Python script that scans a project directory for Python files, counts lines of code excluding blanks and comments, and estimates cyclomatic complexity by counting decision keywords.
import os
from pathlib import Path
def count_lines_of_code(filepath):
"""Counts lines of code in a Python file, excluding blank lines and comments."""
try:
with open(filepath, 'r') as f:
lines = f.readlines()
code_lines = [line for line in lines if line.strip() and not line.strip()…Browse by section
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