setting up iburst driver for ubuntu 8-10 intrepid ibex

http://blog.hostinghabitat.com/2009/02/iburst-usb-modem-installation-tutorial.html

ibdriver (iburst driver) for ubuntu 10.04

Driver for 2.6.28 kernel

Patch from 2.6.28 to 2.6.31:
option 1
option 2

yapyfin.py Python Yahoo Finance Client

Yahoo Finance exposes a large amount of historical US equity data via their html api. The python code below downloads the open-high-low-close-adjclose-volume data for British Petroleum (BP) = stock ticker symbol BP, between 1900/01/01 and 2010/07/18, to text file BP.csv

import httplib
httplib.HTTPConnection.debuglevel = 1
import urllib

def enc_quote(ticker, fromY, fromM, fromD, toY, toM, toD):

    quote = dict()

    quote['s'] = ticker
    quote['a'] = fromM
    quote['b'] = fromD
    quote['c'] = fromY
    quote['d'] = toD
    quote['e'] = toM
    quote['f'] = toY
    quote['g'] = "d" 

    return urllib.urlencode(quote)
    
url_stem = 'http://ichart.yahoo.com/table.csv?'
quote_tokens = enc_quote('BP', '1900', '01', '01', '2010', '07', '18')
url = url_stem + "&ignore=.csv" + quote_tokens

f = urllib.urlopen(url)
body = f.read()
f.close()

try:
    f = open('BP.csv', 'w')
    f.write(body)
    f.close()
except Exception, err:
    print('ERROR: %s\n' % str(err))

PyMSSql - import _mssql - ImportError: DLL load failed: The specific module could not be found

under windows xp pro,
When attempting to import pymssql.py,
I experienced the following error:


"
import _mssql
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specific module could not be found
"

So this is all a bit cryptic, but after googling, which suggested using a windows diagnostic tool [ProcessMonitor] to locate the failing process, it turns out that what is missing is an (accessible) copy of 'mscvr71.dll', which can be downloaded off the net, and should be copied to 'c:\windows\system32\', or 'c:\windows\system\' if running 64bit windows.

you then need to run 'regsvr32 msvcr71.dll' from the command line, in the directory that you copied the dll to.

cant find entrypoint

if you get a 'cant find entrypoint' type error message, its actually still all ok, pymssql should run just fine by that point.

Matching File Extension to Applications

http://filext.com/

Python Client Consumes WCF Web Service

End-Point = ABC
- Address
- Binding
- Contract

WSDL Components

definition
    types
    message
    portType = interface implementation
        operation
            input
            output
    binding = abstract interface
        operation
            documentation
            input
            output
    service
        wsdl:port (name, binding)
            x:address (location)

 
Example Publicly Accessible / iNet WSDL

GlobalWeather.com
- http://www.webservicex.com/globalweather.asmx?wsdl

wsf.cdyne.com
- http://wsf.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Weather.asmx?WSDL

thomas-bayer.com
- http://www.thomas-bayer.com/axis2/services/BLZService?wsdl
 
External Links

- Make a SOAP client with Python
- StackOverFlow - How can I consume a WSDL (SOAP) web service in Python?
- SourceForge - Python Web Services Project

RSA ID Number Check-Sum Algorithm

infomation sourced from this site.

13 digit South African Identity Numbers have the following format

{YYMMDD}{G}{SSS}{A}{Z}

YYMMDD  Date of birth
G       Gender:  0-4 = Female, 5-9 = Male
SSS     Sequence No. for DOB/G combination.
C       Citizenship: 0 = SA, 1 = other
A       generally, but not strictly = 8, 9
Z       CheckSum Digit

Calculation of Checksum Digit = Z

A = sum of digits in odd position (excluding last checksum digit)
B = sum of all the digits of the product of 2 and the number formed from the original be removing all the odd digits
C = A + B
Z = 10 - (second digit of C)