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Convert DOCX to Text by Unzipping XML in Python

Extract plain text from a .docx file by unzipping the container and parsing word/document.xml with regex, using only Python's standard library.

docx zipfile xml
Python
import zipfile
import re
from pathlib import Path

def docx_to_text_unzip_xml(docx_path: str) -> str:
    """Extract plain text from a .docx file by unzipping and parsing document.xml."""
    docx_path = Path(docx_path)
    if not docx_path.exists():
        raise FileNotFoundError(f"File not found: {docx_path}")

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How to Download a GitHub Repository as a ZIP File in Python

Download any public GitHub repository as a ZIP file using the GitHub API and Python's requests and zipfile modules.

github download zip
Python
import requests
import zipfile
import io
import os

def download_github_repo_as_zip(repo_url, output_path='.'):
    """
    Download a GitHub repository as a ZIP file.
    
    Args:
        repo_url (str): Full GitHub repository URL (e.g., 'https://github.com/username/repo')
        output_path (str): Directory to sa…
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Python: Archive Old Logs by Compressing Gzip by Age

A Python script that finds .log files older than a specified age and compresses them into .gz archives while removing the originals.

gzip log-rotation automation
Python
import gzip
import os
import shutil
from pathlib import Path


def archive_logs(log_dir: str, max_age_days: int) -> list[str]:
    """Compress log files older than max_age_days into .gz archives.
    
    Returns a list of compressed file paths.
    """
    cutoff = time.time() - max_age_days * 86400
    compressed = …
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