segfault.in

#!/usr/bin/python
# use Google's http://goo.gl/ URL shortener
# requires urllib, urllib2, re, simplejson
def shorten(url):
  try:
    from re import match
    from urllib2 import urlopen, Request, HTTPError
    from urllib import quote
    from simplejson import loads
  except ImportError, e:
    raise Exception('Required module missing: %s' % e.args[0])
  if not match('http://',url):
    raise Exception('URL must start with "http://"')
  try:
    urlopen(Request('http://goo.gl/api/url','url=%s'%quote(url),{'User-Agent':'toolbar'}))
  except HTTPError, e:
    j = loads(e.read())
    if 'short_url' not in j:
      try:
        from pprint import pformat
        j = pformat(j)
      except ImportError:
        j = j.__dict__
      raise Exception('Didn\'t get a correct-looking response. How\'s it look to you?\n\n%s'%j)
    return j['short_url']
  raise Exception('Unknown eror forming short URL.')
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
  from sys import argv
  print shorten(argv[1])

$ python g.py http://segfault.in
http://goo.gl/Uh5h

def expand(url):
  try:
    import urllib
  except ImportError, e:
    raise Exception('Required module missing: %s' % e.args[0])
 
  f = urllib.urlopen(url)
  return f.geturl()

$ sudo aptitude install python-xmpp python-dnspython

import xmpp
 
# Google Talk constants
FROM_GMAIL_ID = "username@gmail.com"
GMAIL_PASS = "secret"
GTALK_SERVER = "gmail.com"
 
jid=xmpp.protocol.JID(FROM_GMAIL_ID)
C=xmpp.Client(jid.getDomain(),debug=[])
 
if not C.connect((GTALK_SERVER,5222)):
    raise IOError('Can not connect to server.')
if not C.auth(jid.getNode(),GMAIL_PASS):
    raise IOError('Can not auth with server.')
 
C.sendInitPresence(requestRoster=1)
 
def myPresenceHandler(con, event):
   if event.getType() == 'unavailable':
     print event.getFrom().getStripped()
 
C.RegisterHandler('presence', myPresenceHandler)
while C.Process(1):
  pass

$ python gchat.py

import getpass, imaplib, re
 
p = re.compile('\d+')
 
IMAP_SERVER='imap.gmail.com'
IMAP_PORT=993
IMAP_USERNAME='username@gmail.com'
 
M = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(IMAP_SERVER, IMAP_PORT)
M.login(IMAP_USERNAME, getpass.getpass())
quotaStr = M.getquotaroot("INBOX")[1][1][0]
r = p.findall(quotaStr)
if r == []:
  print "Unlimited Quota Account"
  r.append(0)
  r.append(0)
 
print 'Allotted = %f MB'%(float(r[1])/1024)
print 'Used = %f MB'%(float(r[0])/1024)
M.logout()