ABAP Get REST XML and Parse XML

This tutorial will help you use ABAP to connect to any web service and process the resulting output. ABAP has native support for XML so it will be easiest to get your information in XML format rather than JSON and others. For this example, I will use a CBC’s news feed but…

How to Convert Numpy Array to Tuple

a = array((1, 2, 3))
print a
>>> array([1, 2, 3])
tuple(a)
>>> (1, 2, 3)

Pretty lame right?

PIL: Get RGB Value from GIF

If you load a GIF file with PIL via Image.open(‘giffile.gif’) and then try to look at its pixels, you would get integers instead of tuples since the GIF pixels refers to one of the 256 colours in the GIF colour palette. The palette would then contain the RGB value of the pixel.

Validate and Format Addresses using Google API

Suppose you want to make some web app that lets users input addresses. I would be nice to

1. Weed out minor misspelling
2. Standardise format (proper capitalisation, abbreviated province/state or full…

Login SAP CRM as a Separate User than Single Sign-On

If you have SSO enabled on SAP CRM, you can sometimes get stuck with your user on your computer’s certificate and you can’t get out of it with logout, delete cookies, no auto-login etc. But what you can do is add

Python Challenge Level 14: Italy — Code

Used a NumPy array. Doesn’t work if the diagonal+1s are white of course.

import Image
from numpy import array, zeros, uint8

line = Image.open('wire.png')
# third dimension is for colours
a = zeros((100, 100…

Python Debug with ipdb

A quickie:

import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace()

This puts a breakpoint in the code using ipdb. It has the advantage of having better formatted output, tab completion etc over the vanilla pdb

iPhone rings twice with text message

It was kinda off putting with my new iPhone 4S to find out that Apple makes SMS alerts ring twice (once on receive and one reminder) instead of having an LED light for alerts like in Android or Blackberry. Kind of a workaround rather than a real solution to the…