howdoi 0.1.2

A code search tool

howdoi - a code search tool

Are you a hack programmer? Do you find yourself constantly Googling for how to do basic programing tasks?

Suppose you want to know how to format a date in bash. Why open your browser and read through blogs when you can just…

$ howdoi format string bash
> [foo@bar ~]$date --date "2012-02-13" +%s
> 1329055200
> [foo@bar ~]$date --date @1329055200
> Mon Feb 13 00:00:00 EST 2012
> [foo@bar ~]$date --date @1329055200 +"%Y-%m-%d"
> 2012-02-13

howdoi will answer all sorts of queries

$ howdoi print stack trace python
> import traceback
>
> try:
>     1/0
> except:
>     print '>>> traceback <<<'
>     traceback.print_exc()
>     print '>>> end of traceback <<<'
> traceback.print_exc()

$ howdoi convert mp4 to animated gif
> video=/path/to/video.avi
> outdir=/path/to/output.gif
> mplayer "$video" \
>         -ao null \
>         -ss "00:01:00" \  # starting point
>         -endpos 10 \ # duration in second
>         -vo gif89a:fps=13:output=$outdir \
>         -vf scale=240:180

$ howdoi create tar archive
> tar -cf backup.tar --exclude "www/subf3" www

Installation

pip install howdoi

Usage

howdoi [-h] [-p POS] [-f] [-l] QUERY [QUERY ...]

code search tool

positional arguments:
  QUERY              the question to answer

optional arguments:
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit
  -p POS, --pos POS  select answer in specified position (default: 1)
  -f, --full         display the full text of the answer
  -l, --link         display only the answer link

Extra notes:

• Requires PyQuery

• Special thanks to Rich Jones (@miserlou) for the idea

TODOs:

• Be able to pick StackOverflow result based on different criteria (active, oldest, etc.)

News

0.1.2

Added Windows executable Updated README for pip installation instructions

0.1.1

Added to PyPI

0.1

We’re doing it live!