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A client is asking that I write a script to periodically pull his contacts from Google into ACT on his local computer. Is there a library that would allow me to interact with something as old as ACT?
Looks like you might be able to simply use an ODBC connection as outlined in this article: How To Create An ODBC Connection For Use With The ACT! Reader Utility
Alternatively if you need to bare-metal it, you could try ctypes, or leverage IronPython.
Just came across this while looking for something else and thought I'd add a more conclusive and update answer.
With versions since v11 in 2013, it's now got the ability to sync contacts/activities with Google out of the box. http://kb.act.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/27988
Even more power over the past year - http://kb.act.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/38991
Exporting from Act! versions 7/8 or later can be done via a number of methods:
OLEDB, ODBC (or direct access to SQL with the later versions), SDK, WebAPI, or a number of third-party tools that already pull everything to Excel (or other formats).
I did a presentation of the various options some time ago, posted here:
https://blog.glcomputing.com.au/2009/07/connecting-to-act-by-sage-data.html
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So, I've built this program using python what is currently running in the terminal.
My goal is to eventually design the application in a modern way like (discord, slack, or any other 2021 downloaded desktop-app),but I'm not really sure what to use.
The thing is, I know React/Electron would be the best way to build/design a desktop application like discord, teams etc. However, I'm looking to keep my python as some sort of backend, while using lets say Electron as front
How can I keep my python functions, while designing a modern GUI/front end?
Thanks for advice
wiki.python.org has GuiProgamming entry, where GUI frameworks for python are enumerated. You need to select framework which does support platform you are targeting. If you are interested in fine control of look I would suggest Kivy cross-platform framework.
You could use the Tkinter python module although it is not to much like react.
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I was thinking of building a piece of software that would be able to encrypt specific fields in a data file. So I started to consider writing some code in Python using cryptographic libraries. However I wonder: is it really safe? Should I rather use existing cryptographic tools?
If so, do you know a good cryptographic tool I could rely on? The only tools I find only encrypt entire files or disks. Thank you!
This greatly depends (obviously), on how you write it.
There are libraries like cryptography which already provide this solution though and are considered very safe.
https://github.com/fugue/credstash, for instance, which is widely used, uses cryptography.
https://github.com/lyft/confidant uses it also.
I implemented a locally usable secret store using cryptography (which you could use to encrypt any type of data) - https://github.com/nir0s/ghost which you could use as a reference implementation or simply use it (hope I'm not breaking any rules here)
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I stumbled upon the wikidump python library, which I think suits me just fine.
I could get by by looking at the source code, but I'm new at python and I don't want to write BS code as the project I need it for is kind of important to me.
I got the 'wiki-SPECIFICDATE-pages-articles.xml.bz2' file and I would need to use that as my source for single article fetching. Can anyone give me some pointers as to properly achieve this or, even better, point at some documentation? I couldn't find any!
(p.s. if you got any better and properly doc'd lib, please tell me)
Not sure if I understand the question, but if you have the Wikipedia dump and you need to parse the wikicode, I would suggest mwparserfromhell lib.
Another powerful framework is Pywikibot, that is the historic framework for bot users on Wikipedia (thus, it has many scripts dedicated to writing pages, instead of reading and parsing articles). It has a lot of documentation (though, sometimes obsolete) and it uses MediaWiki API.
You can use them both, of course: PWB for fetching articles and mwparserfromhell for parsing.
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Real-time api browser websites like ruby-docs.com and jqapi.com are very useful, it there any similar website for Python?
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By real-time I means instant search. docs.python.org is well-wriiten but a little hard for searching (comparing with ruby-docs.com and jqapi.co).
Not clear what you mean by real-time API in this respect, a Python API?.
The documentatation at http://docs.python.org is very useful and complete, supports multiple version of the Python language (starting with 2.6) and has search.
The search there is not as interactive e.g. the one on ruby-docs.com.
I use docs.python.org quite often and personally do not miss that interactivity, as my IDE for Python has a better interactive information than a website can provide.
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I'm looking for a library for gathering "runtime statistics" in python, by which I mean an interface for outputting structured log files. A good example of what I would like is Twitter's ostrich project in Scala, wherein one simply executes a statement notifying the logger of an event. Ideally, this would then be automatically aggregated into a suitable visualization for application monitoring.
Does anyone know if such a library exists? Alternatively, does anyone know a more generic way of combining traditional message logging with some simply graphing for runtime analytics?
Thanks!
Graphite is one such system, written in Python.
I'm not familiar with ostrich, but a quick look at the readme suggests that the python project mmstats might be close to what you're looking for.