If you want to add a user to all of the components in bugzilla, you don’t have to go through the gui. In fact, you can change just about anything in bugzilla by connecting to the database directly and modifying the tables. I find this much faster than repetitively navigating through the web front end. Connect to the database, match up user id’s to user names, figure out which components you want to modify, then update the component_cc table. Step-by-step.

I needed a batch converter to turn non-xml style Excel spreadsheets (all the older versions) into delimited text files. If you run it without supplying a sheet name, it will list all the sheets available. You can also optionally define a delimiter to use instead of the default comma. So here’s my code along with part of the xlrd module which I tweaked a little.

You might want to do this to make sure a set of configuration files don’t get changed, or to figure out which files get changed when you build that random source code as root! (note to self: don’t make as root unless you have to, rpmbuild is bad enough!)

For those of you still loading your digital camera’s images into MSPAINT or paying hard earned $$$ for some crappy program just to shrink the size and quality to get normal file sizes that display easily and upload faster to your favorite photo sites:
Do it in 1 freaking command …