Tag Archives: python

vba-edit 0.4.3 released

NEW: uvx support for all entry points

no installation needed: prepend uvx to all commands

Excel:

uvx excel-vba edit -f myfile.xlsm --vba-directory .\src\VBA

Word:

uvx word-vba edit -f myfile.docm --vba-directory .\src\VBA

Access:

uvx access-vba edit -f myfile.accdb --vba-directory .\src\VBA

PowerPoint:

uvx powerpoint-vba edit -f myfile.pptm --vba-directory .\src\VBA

Note: The uvx command invokes a tool without installing it — same as: uv tool run excel-vba

New: uvx support for all entry points:

vibe engineering rather than vibe coding

A recent blog post by Simon Willison:

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/14/justhtml/

spaCy

Extremely promising new Python NLP tool: spaCy (commercial open-source software):

Unfortunately, it is only able to deal with English input at the moment and installation on Windows seems to be tricky. The project is currently under intense development and it will be interesting to check the following links on a regular basis:

Link to github project

Link to documentation

License: AGPLv3 (free for open-source projects), changed to MIT License (27 Sep 2015)

24-07-2015 15-22-36

 

Source: http://spacy.io/index.html#detailed-speed-comparison [accessed: 24/07/2015]

Recent overview of Python NLP resources on DataScienceCentral

Link to blogpost

Link to community-edited list on Pansop

24-07-2015 14-41-57

Source: http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/python-nlp-tools [accessed: 24/07/2015]

Running TextSTAT on Linux

Tested on: Xubuntu 12.04 LTS (64-bit), using default python interpreter (v2.7.3)

[Last update: 04/03/2014]

  • Install/check for TextSTAT dependencies:
  1. sudo apt-get install python-tk
  • Download latest release (check here for latest version number) and run TextSTAT:
  1. mkdir TextSTAT
cd TextSTAT
wget http://neon.niederlandistik.fu-berlin.de/static/textstat/TextSTAT-2.9c-source.zip
unzip TextSTAT-2.9c-source.zip
chmod +x TextSTAT.pyw
./TextSTAT.pyw
  • Download icon and create desktop shortcut (copy-paste [Desktop Entry] into a new file called TextSTAT.desktop on your Desktop, don’t forget to adapt the full path to TextSTAT.pyw and textstat_logo.gif):
  1. wget http://neon.niederlandistik.fu-berlin.de/static/textstat/textstat_logo.gif
  1. [Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=TextSTAT 2.9c
Comment=Concordancing Program written in Python
Exec=/path/to/TextSTAT/TextSTAT.pyw
Icon=/path/to/TextSTAT/textstat_logo.gif