PyProfanity is a small program I whipped up to be used by a clients guest book posting routine.  The whole point is a simply way to prevent guests and spammers alike from posting profanity and sexually explicit content in their messages.  I have set up a simple cherrypy app here to allow people to try it out and help me add to the wordlist.  I have access to a log that lets me see everything tried so I can see how effective it is.  Anyone is welcome to test. The code is simple enough to post directly on here so here it is.

import re

class ProfanityFilter:
 
    def readProfanities():
        profanities = []
        file = open('wordlist','r')
        for line in file:
            line = line.strip('\n')
            profanities.append(line)
        return profanities
 
    profanities = readProfanities()
 
    def replaceProfanity( self, query ):
        for w, profanity in enumerate( self.profanities ):
            replacement = ''
            for c in range(len(profanity)):
                replacement = replacement + '*'
            p = re.compile(profanity , re.I)
            query = p.sub(replacement, query)
        return query

For obvious reasons I am not going to post contents of 'wordlist'. If you would like a copy of it send me an email.

Suggestion and improvements are welcome.

Due to school work, work, work, and more work.  I was not able to complete PyPal as soon as I planned.  I have however gotten my first Pypal site up and going.  It is a site that was made for a local artist to be able to sell her artwork.  None the items are linked to an actual PayPal account because she hasn't had a chance to set one up yet.  In the near future hopefully I will have time to strip it down to a more genral version that other people can benefit from.  Although a huge goal of PyPal was ease of manageing items up for sale, for obvious reasons you will not be able to access the admin portion of the site.  As a demo the site is currently available at the following link.  LoriArt

It should be noted that http 408/409 errors are an occurrence when using internet explorer.  Firefox work perfectly.  If anyone knows why this would happen I'm all ears.  The site is cherrypy running behind apache using mod_proxy.

Edit:

Problem solved thanks to the cherrypy googles group.

Adding "SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive 1" before the"ProxyPass" lines fixes the problem.  It is an error is cherrypy 3.1.  More on the issue http://cherrypy.org/ticket/853.

 
I work at a school that uses Fedora for Linux servers.  I'm constantly complaining about the use of Fedora and suggesting that we be using Ubuntu.  This is primarily because I've never really used Fedora so I don't know the directory structure pertaining to where everything is.  On top of that I'm not familiar with the yum package manager and RPMs in general.  While we were setting up a Fedora web server for the robotics team the coworker suggested that he installs and uses nothing but Ubuntu for a month and I install and use nothing but Fedora for a month.  Although it was never really considered I have decided to do this and the Fedora ISO is downloading as I type this.

In one month I  will write a Fedora Vs. Ubuntu review.  Stay Tuned....

I was asked by a client to put a page hits counter on their site.  I personally hate those stupid counters and think they take away from the professional feel of the site and they just look tacky.  I was planning on creating a python list and appending all the unique ip addresses that visited the site.  I would then display the length of the list in the admin management portion of the site for the client to see.  To be quite honest I don't remeber what I was looking for but I stumbled across Google analytics.

Google Analytics is a free service offered by Google (Who else) that allows website administrators to track multiple aspects of the traffic that is coming to their site.  Google Analytics simply requires signing up for the service and then adding a small snippet of code to the pages you want tracked.  Once the pages have been edited with the snippet about 24 hours is required before the results will show.  When the results start showing the user can see the number of unique visits, page views, time spent on site, geographic location(Country/City/State) of the visitor, browser the visitor the user is using, and the source of the traffic(Search Engine\Direct\Refferal).  The fun does not stop here.  Google Analytics has the email capabilities to send a nicely formatted report as a pdf. xml, csv, or tsv.  The report can be sent at a predefined interval to predefined list of people.  Google Analytics has several other features that I have left out so instead of reading about it, go try it. Google Analytics

Google is that much closer to taking over the world.  Google has released there own web browser.  Although it isn't available for linux yet it seems like it will be a nice web browser that combines lots of the features of other web browsers in to one ultimate browser.  Other key features inclued independent tabs so if one crashes the others remain usable.  The other feature I noticed was called incognito mode where it doesn't keep a history.

The day google produces there own linux based operating system will be the start of the fall of Microsoft.  The funny thing is it's not a monopoly because google gives everything away and is not making money off it.